Denouncing your Own Sin: the Struggle for Subjectivity through the Publicization of Penance in Spanish Convents

IF 0.4 4区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Culture & History Digital Journal Pub Date : 2017-11-29 DOI:10.3989/CHDJ.2017.016
Antoine Roullet
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This article delves into the creation of subjectivity through the publicization of penance in Spanish convents. We seek to demonstrate that conventual sociability relied on the disclosure of each nun’s interiority despite the discourse of self-denial the conventual institution was built upon. However, this presentation of the self was clearly restricted and had to fit within contradictory norms to deny and dispel any vain temptation to appear greater than the others. Nuns had to be humble, secret, moderate, strictly obedient, yet they were expected to edify one another, to be zealous and violent in their desire to mortify or castigate themselves. As introspection was a recommended activity, these double binds and the scruples they bred justify the systematic resort to tactics that relied on the leeway conventual life provided to work around the rule and seek recognition from the community. This necessary acknowledgment of each nun’s flaws and deeds fostered a common interpretation of what was the most appropriate behavior inside the convent. Therefore, subjectivity was jointly built through these self-disclosing techniques and the reaction of the community.
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谴责你自己的罪恶:通过在西班牙修道院公开忏悔来争取主体性
本文通过对西班牙修道院忏悔的公共化,探讨了主体性的创造。我们试图证明,尽管修道院制度是建立在自我否定的话语之上,但修道院的社交能力依赖于每个修女内在性的披露。然而,这种自我展示显然受到了限制,必须符合相互矛盾的规范,以否认和消除任何表现得比他人更伟大的徒劳诱惑。修女们必须谦逊、隐秘、温和、严格顺从,但他们被要求相互启迪,在羞辱或鞭挞自己的欲望中表现出热情和暴力。由于反省是一项建议的活动,这些双重约束及其滋生的顾虑证明了有系统地采取策略的合理性,这种策略依赖于传统生活提供的回旋余地,以绕过规则并寻求社区的认可。对每一位修女的缺点和行为的必要承认,促成了对修道院内最恰当行为的共同理解。因此,主体性是通过这些自我揭示的技巧和社区的反应共同构建的。
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期刊介绍: Culture & History Digital Journal features original scientific articles and review articles, aimed to contribute to the methodological debate among historians and other scholars specialized in the fields of Human and Social Sciences, at an international level. Using an interdisciplinary and transversal approach, this Journal poses a renovation of the studies on the past, relating them and dialoguing with the present, breaking the traditional forms of thinking based on chronology, diachronic analysis, and the classical facts and forms of thinking based exclusively on textual and documental analysis. By doing so, this Journal aims to promote not only new subjects of History, but also new forms of addressing its knowledge.
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