ABSTRACT
While they did not necessarily occupy dichotomous positions, Talavera and Cisneros are emblematic of the complex and fluid religious climate that characterized the years between the resolution of the conflict at San Quirce. A variety of factors shaped the religious climate of late fifteenth and early sixteenth-century Spain but the royal campaign to reform Spain's clergy - both secular and regular - stands as the most influential. Ultimately, the papal bull Exposuerunt nobis gave Isabel and Ferdinand's ecclesiastical visitors the powers to introduce new standards of discipline and daily comportment into Spain's convents. Contextualizing the categorization of women like the mugeres seglares who lived in convents without being solemnly professed provides some insight into the circumstances at Santa Clara. The monastic reform campaign led by Isabel and Ferdinand was only one part of a multi-faceted movement for spiritual reform and renewal that began in the late fifteenth century and penetrated most of Europe.
