“This is lost, it is the house of babylon⇝: Women, normativity and control in lima. The visit of pedro antonio barroeta to the conception monastery (1754)

While there has been significant interest in the religious institutions of Imperial Imperial Spain and it´s legislation, less studies have focused on the professed nuns as historical actors. The present paper examines the creation of ecclesiastical regulations for the control and government of the female Lima monasteries in the 18th century, paying special attention to the role played by both the ecclesiastical authorities and the professed nuns themselves, who far from being mere recipients of Church regulations, constituted an essential piece for the creation of the same. This analysis draws on an examination of the visita general to the Lima female monasteries, more specifically that of the Conception Monastery carried out by the archbishop Pedro Antonio Barroeta y Ángel in 1754.