Nuns and childcare: the orphanage of Santi Quattro Coronati in the sixteenth century
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https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/5640Keywords:
Nuns, Orphans, EnclosureAbstract
In the early decades of the sixteenth century a vast project aimed at protecting and rehabilitating marginalized women took shape in the city of Rome. This resulted in the establishment of specific institutions destined to house girls so as to feed and educate them, and above all to protect their honour and honesty. These establishments were sometimes run by nuns, or else by oblates, or other sanctimoniales, but also by lay women. In this context rose the orphanage of Santi Quattro Coronati, established to house Roman orphans and entrusted to a group of Augustinian tertiary nuns. Mentioned in various ways in the documents, and at times mixed up with girls’ schools, the institution developed early on as a cloistered monastery, although it followed less rigid norms and enjoyed more concessions when compared to other coeval monastic communities.
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