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While there has been significant interest in the religious institutions of Imperial Imperial Spain and it´s legislation, less studies have focused on the professed nuns as historical actors. The present paper examines the creation of ecclesiastical regulations for the control and government of the female Lima monasteries in the 18th century, paying special attention to the role played by both the ecclesiastical authorities and the professed nuns themselves, who far from being mere recipients of Church regulations, constituted an essential piece for the creation of the same. This analysis draws on an examination of the visita general to the Lima female monasteries, more specifically that of the Conception Monastery carried out by the archbishop Pedro Antonio Barroeta y Ángel in 1754. ; Si bien es notoria la existencia de diversos estudios relativos a las instituciones religiosas y a su normativa en la monarquía hispánica, los actores involucrados, sin embargo, han sido un asunto que frecuentemente se ha dejado de lado. El presente trabajo quiere observar el proceso de creación de normatividad eclesiástica para el control y gobierno de los monasterios limeños femeninos en el siglo XVIII, prestando una especial atención al rol desempeñado tanto por las autoridades eclesiásticas como por las profesas mismas, que, lejos de ser meras receptoras de las disposiciones, constituyeron una pieza esencial para su construcción. Este análisis se realizará principalmente a partir de la visita general a los monasterios femeninos limeños, más concretamente al de la Concepción, efectuada por el arzobispo Pedro Antonio Barroeta y Ángel en 1754.

The new parameters of a global world in the early modern period gave rise to an expansion of movement that facilitated spatial and social mobility for women of different social ranks. Through their reexamination of archival documents and travel narratives, these essays investigate the opportunities for female mobility across the Spanish Empire, narrating the journeys of women who assumed new and unpredictable roles in distant environments. Some risked transoceanic journeys to hold positions of colonial power, while nuns traveled to found convents. Portuguese and Genoese women financiers and merchants traversed the Mediterranean to command enterprises in different cities. Breaking with tradition, the noblewomen considered in these essays exercised political agency as ambassadresses and diplomatic spies at various European courts. Still other women fled across borders from oppressive marriages or cross-dressed as soldiers to perform adventurous feats in support of imperial causes. Their frequently distorted histories, authored by men, have been revised and rectified by the authors of this volume