Beatas y comunidad cívica. algunas claves interpretativas de la espiritualidad femenina urbana bajomedieval (córdoba, siglos XIV-XV)

Abstract

In the light of the usual historical image presenting the late medieval female religious movement as lacking coherence and being determined by the phenomenon of a socio-economic female surplus, these pages raise the importance of the analysis of its characteristic connection with the cities in order to evaluate their features, associative forms and intentions and, consequently, the political dimension of urban women's spirituality. The focus is on one sector of the movement, namely the non-regulated religious life, considered within an Andalusian framework that was particularly conspicuous in female religious expression: the city of Córdoba, reformist epicenter during the last two centuries of the Middle Ages.