Oria de Villavelayo, the Enclosure and the Female Religious Mouvement in Castilian. (XII-XVI centuries)

Abstract

This study try to approach to the feminine seclusion in Castilian like expression of the
female religious mouvement. It will show the genealogicals secuences about this social
practice before the twelve century and no later of the fourteen century, gettings free of the
concrete historicals moments , and associating this event to the sexuals and structurals standards.
The research of the Oria de Villavelayo's case has three analisies points: The holiness
like a way to get a female authority, social acknowledgement and historical memory; the
second is the recovery of the female experience with hagiograficals texts written by men; the
third aspect is the distortion between the classicals formas of the ritual process and the logic
of the female experience.