Women, convents and divorce in early modern Spain

2025/02/09 by Intxaustegi Jauregi, Nere Jone
#Convents #Divorce #Women

paper · doi:10.25365/adv.2025.10.9225

Abstract

There are archival records of women in the Golden Age seeking divorce from their husbands while living in a convent, which may seem unusual today. So I am interested in exploring why a woman in the early modern period would enter a convent and seek a divorce from there. I present identities, different examples and motivations that help to understand this dynamic.

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