Negociando Auctoritas en el monasterio: de reyes, abades y Dios
Negotiating Auctoritas in the monastery: about kings, abbots and God
Abstract
Las comunidades monásticas son un ejemplo muy útil para examinar diferentes formas y maneras de negociar la Auctoritas en un contexto institucional. En este trabajo se expone, a modo de introducción, una serie de situaciones en las que las comunidades religiosas se enfrentaban con la necesidad de negociar la autoridad, tanto interna como externamente, con sus fundadores y patrocinadores, con sus vecinos, y con las diversas autoridades eclesiásticas y seculares. A continuación, se elabora el estudio de caso del convento cisterciense femenino de Bonrepòs en Cataluña, que servirá para ejemplificar muchas de las cuestiones planteadas en la introducción, demostrando que esas comunidades religiosas fueron instituciones dinámicas operando en el marco de unas amplias redes de contacto.
Monastic communities provide a very useful example for examining different ways and means of negotiating Auctoritas in an institutional context. This paper will outline, by way of introduction, a range of situations in which religious communities were confronted with having to negotiate authority both internally and externally, with founders and patrons, neighbours, and various ecclesiastical and secular authorities. Following this, the case study of the Cistercian nunnery of Bonrepòs in Catalonia will serve to exemplify many of the points made in the introduction, showing those communities to be greatly dynamic institutions that operated within the framework of wide-ranging contact-networks.
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