Title: Educación y formación, saber práctico y saber erudito en los monasterios femeninos en la Baja Edad Media
Abstract: Women’s monastic foundations, since their appearance in the early days of Christianity, constituted a particular type of space for living and learning. Religious women had to have suffi cient command of Latin to carry out their liturgical duties; at the same time, their knowledge of Latin allowed them access to the scholarly traditions of the European Middle Ages. Since these women were excluded from public educational institutions, such as the Latin schools or the universities, as a rule nuns themselves assumed responsibility for educating the next generation of religious women. The various fields of knowledge taught in female foundations encompassed not only the theological, liturgical and literary, but also a sophisticated knowledge of administration and law that (in written form) was tailored towards the particular circumstances of managing, from within their monastic enclosure, the convent familia , its lands and economy. These fields of knowledge are reflected not only in the composition of their libraries but also in the written material pertaining to administration that is still preserved in monastic archives.