La regulación de la confesión de monjas a través de sus normativas: carmelitas descalzas y agustinas recoletas (ss. XVI-XVII)
The Regulation of Nuns’ Confession through Their Rules: Discalced Carmelite Nuns and Augustinian Recollect Nuns (16th–17th Centuries)

Summary/Abstract: From a regulatory perspective, the spiritual care of nuns during the modern period was subject to varying degrees of concretisation. The Holy See established a series of regulations that were adapted by religious orders and even by individual convents. In this case, we will analyse the regulations of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns and the Augustinian Recollect Nuns, focusing on confession and its management, which involves considering their own process of creation and subsequent evolution, with the modifications that this may have entailed in each case. The study of the different versions of the Constitutions established by Saint Teresa of Ávila and Mariana of Saint Joseph, each for their own institute, confirms the main changes regarding the administration of this sacrament. Among these, the displacement and loss of autonomy experienced by prioress in managing the spiritual assistance of their communities stands out, which occurred at the behest and for the benefit of the male branches of each order.

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