"Communitas" y "auctoritas": repensar la comunidad religiosa femenina de la alta modernidad. Caso de Ana Francisca Abarca de Bolea (O. Cist., 1602-ca. 1686) y las cistercienses de Casbas

Abstract

English Title. Communitas and auctoritas: Rethinking the Female Religious Community in the Early Modern Era. The Case of Ana Francisca Abarca de Bolea (O. Cist., 1602-ca. 1686) and the Cistercian Nuns of Casbas.The article reflects on the strategic and discursive dimension of community in the process of becoming an author through the case study of Ana Francisca Abarca de Bolea (O. Cist., Ca. 1602-1686) and the Cistercian nuns of the Villa de Casbas. It analyses the rhetorical strategies and models of authorship negotiation in the selected corpus of texts by this nun author that prioritize the female collectivity in seclusion, naming the individual and com-mon symbolic legacy and spiritual memory. The study offers a critical reflection on the notion of the female religious community in the Early Modern period in the light of the recent theoretical contributions (Roberto Esposito, Judith Butler and Marta Segarra, among others) and the Greek (koinonia) and Latin origin (communitas) of the word. This allows to read the studied phenomena beyond the quality of the “common” understood in terms of a shared property or essence. Therefore, such an approach enables us to think of another dynamics of relations among women religious of the period, based not on the binomials inside/outside or superiority/subordination, which have been privileged frame-works for the reading of this type of sources, but derived from the relationality, reciproci-ty and agentivity that shape another geometry of the community

English Title. Communitas and auctoritas: Rethinking the Female Religious Community in the Early Modern Era. The Case of Ana Francisca Abarca de Bolea (O. Cist., 1602-ca. 1686) and the Cistercian Nuns of Casbas.The article reflects on the strategic and discursive dimension of community in the process of becoming an author through the case study of Ana Francisca Abarca de Bolea (O. Cist., Ca. 1602-1686) and the Cistercian nuns of the Villa de Casbas. It analyses the rhetorical strategies and models of authorship negotiation in the selected corpus of texts by this nun author that prioritize the female collectivity in seclusion, naming the individual and com-mon symbolic legacy and spiritual memory. The study offers a critical reflection on the notion of the female religious community in the Early Modern period in the light of the recent theoretical contributions (Roberto Esposito, Judith Butler and Marta Segarra, among others) and the Greek (koinonia) and Latin origin (communitas) of the word. This allows to read the studied phenomena beyond the quality of the “common” understood in terms of a shared property or essence. Therefore, such an approach enables us to think of another dynamics of relations among women religious of the period, based not on the binomials inside/outside or superiority/subordination, which have been privileged frame-works for the reading of this type of sources, but derived from the relationality, reciproci-ty and agentivity that shape another geometry of the community