Positiones : Sezione Monache, 1626-1908.

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Catholic Church. Congregatio Negotiis et Consultationibus Episcoporum et Regularium Praeposita. Positiones : Sezione Monache, 1626-1908.

Positiones : Sezione Monache, 1626-1908.

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Most of the files in the buste of this series deal in one way or another with convent "irregularities," taking the Tridentine decrees as the rule. As a rule, the more routine an issue, the less detail one receives about it. Since women's were more highly regulated than male monasteries and a nun's life was less public, material concerning women's institutions generally centers on convent life. Aside from an instance of the occasional unwanted pregnancy, the rare clandestine flight, and the ubiquitous predatory confessor, the files of the Sezione monache contain comparatively less of what the modern mind classifies as crime or scandal than the Congregatio Negotiis et Consultationibus Episcoporum et Regularium Praeposita series Sezione regularium. Since, particularly in minor matters, the Congregation functioned as a gracious as well as a surveillant and restrictive organ, the Positiones often contain various sorts of dispensations and special permissions (e.g., for more than two sisters of the same family to make profession in the same monastery, for the acceptance of an illiterate woman as a nun). Dispensations of a more serious nature were handled by the Congregazione del Concilio. According to Burns in Indice 1104 (I), similar materials which predate this series can by located in the Positiones : Vescovi et Regolari (later Positiones : Sezione Vescovi) (ID VATV10374-A).

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