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Dissertation Information for Jacqueline Susan Holler

NAME:
- Jacqueline Susan Holler

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- Emory University (USA) (1998)

ADVISORS:
- Peter J Bakewell

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Susan Migden Socolow
- William Taylor

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: "Escogidas plantas": Nun and beatas in Mexico City, 1531-1601

Abstract: By the beginning of the seventeenth century, eleven convents of nuns, three recogimientos or houses of reclusion, and any number of uncloistered beatas, or semi-religious women, labored in Mexico City for the spiritual and temporal betterment of the kingdom of New Spain. Of the twenty-one convents for women established in New Spain's capital during the colonial period, eleven were created between 1540 and 1601. This rate of foundation was exceptional in comparison not only to other regions, but to the city's own later history. Thus the sixteenth century was an era in which the establishment of monastic and quasi-monastic houses for women was a particularly urgent theme of the colonial experience: a period, moreover, in which women's monasticism went from being enlisted on behalf of the missionary effort to helping create the colonial society of New Spain.

Because most histories of Mexican feminine monasticism have emphasized the later colonial period, this study seeks to elucidate the history of the city's women religious, both nuns and beatas, from 1531 to 1601. The dissertation examines two broad questions: first, the role of semi-religious and religious women in the sixteenth-century transformation of Mexico City from seat of the Aztec empire to viceregal capital; and second, the character of female religious life in Mexico during the period in question. Part One argues that the enclosure of Spanish women and their entrance into religion were important aspects of the conversion of Mexico City to Spanish metropolis. Part Two argues that changes in feminine religion in the sixteenth century, combined with the nature of the foundational period, made women's experience of religious life during the years in question much more variable than would be the case during the next two centuries of colonial rule.

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