"Siervas regias": el rol femenino en la espiritualidad dinástica (siglos X-XI)
"Siervas regias": the female role in the dynamic spirituality (10th-11th centuries)
Abstract
Within the Hispanic sphere, we attend in the kingdom of Leon-Castile to a particularly striking phenomenon due to its feminine nature: the infantazgo. The term comes from its relationship with the infantas, a word that refers to the sovereigns´s daughters. These women received a variable set of monasteries and properties from the royal estate. Thus, the aim is to clarify the position exercised in the monastic communities under their charge, mainly between the 10th and 11th centuries. Likewise, the particularities of the Infantazgo will be considered in a comparative key, so that they could be contextualized between the forms that took the feminine spirituality in the European scene.
Dentro del ámbito hispano, en el reino de León-Castilla atendemos a un fenómeno especialmente llamativo por su carácter femenino: el infantazgo. El término proviene de su vinculación con las infantas, nombre con el que se alude a las hijas de los soberanos. Estas mujeres recibían un conjunto variable de monasterios y heredades procedentes de los bienes del realengo. Así, se pretende esclarecer la posición ejercida en las comunidades monásticas bajo su cargo, contextualizadas principalmente entre los siglos X y XI. Asimismo, se sopesarán las particularidades del infantazgo en clave comparativa, de forma que puedan enmarcarse en las tendencias que regían la espiritualidad femenina del panorama europeo.
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