Pobreza, obediencia, castidad y clausura eran los votos que debían seguir las niñas, las jóvenes y las mujeres que practicaban la vida religiosa en los conventos. Bajo esta estricta normativa, elaborada desde la Edad Media y fortalecida y confirmada por el Concilio de Trento, las historias de las mujeres que habitaron los claustros han estado signadas por narrativas en las que priman la explicación y la problematización de un arquetipo ideal femenino subordinado a las autoridades masculinas y, por supuesto, a las instituciones patriarcales que rigen la Iglesia católica. Bajo esta lógica, se ha impuesto, en el tiempo, un relato en el que se define a la religiosa como buena, portentosa, silenciosa, subordinada; casi incapaz de controvertir normas, de sentir y vivir pasiones, de imponerse sobre las autoridades masculinas2; y más aún, como modelo de sumisión y perfectibilidad relig...

At the beginning of 2019, I received a cordial invitation from the Allpanchis editorial team to coordinate a dossier dedicated to the study of the American clergy. In defining this academic exercise, I determined that it was vital to make visible the ecclesiastical agents and their sociopolitical intermediaries, as well as the historical roles they fulfilled at different times in American history. To achieve this goal, it was vital not only to limit ourselves to a specific spatiality or temporality —the viceroyalty—, but also to consider the articulation of historical periods based on clerical agency. This is how the dossier that I have the honor to present exhibits research on the study of the American clergy in a long-term perspective that goes from the 16th century to the dawn of the 20th century, and that demonstrates the agency, accommodation, mediation , the links and the leadi...

The ecclesiastical councils played a decisive role in the ecclesiastical administration of the Indian bishoprics since it was the corporation in which members of local family groups positioned themselves as a strategy to acquire power and prestige, or a grant from the king, appealing to the resources of ecclesiastical promotion. dictated by the Regio Patronato. Is it possible to identify this model of practices in the cathedral chapter of Popayán? How does the promotion of an ecclesiastic influence his family lineage or the support of a protector? The objective of this text is to show how in the seventeenth century, various cases of networks and lineages that achieved a prebend in the Pagan cathedral chapter stand out, for these documents from the General Archive of the Indies and the Central Archive of Cauca have been consulted, which They allow us to understand that the Payanese cathe...