Published in New Approaches in the Research on the Crown of Aragon

Keywords: Feminine monastery, Literary cultural practice, Misdemeanour, Modern Age, Moral.

The present investigation pretends to do visible the importance of the monastery feminine, at the ken of the life and the culture of the women of the 16th century. This period met how the Modern Age has not enjoyed for part of the Catalan literary canon a positive consideration, since the term Decadence has comported a pejorative vision of the praxiliterary realized by the women. At this sense, the delights of the women that inhabited these cloisters evidence us that it is necessary to delete commonplaces of the life monastery feminine that are very moved away of the reality. Among the most excelled delights of these excels the reading and the sex that manifested an optics of the different reality of what pretended to impose the ecclesiastical patriarchy.