This article revisits the presence of Birgittine texts in the Crown of Aragon, focusing on medieval Barcelona as a site where circulation exceeds the limits imposed by traditional historiography. Rather than measuring influence through institutional foundations or vernacular translations, it traces a set of dispersed yet persistent material and textual traces, manuscripts, inventories, devotional objects, that suggest a different mode of reception. Latin, far from being a barrier, appears here as a shared medium that enabled movement across social and devotional contexts, including lay environments. The article proposes the notion of affective communities to account for these formations. These are not structured around stable texts or clearly defined groups, but emerge through contact, use, and memory. The circulation of Birgittine materials, alongside references to Birgitta's authority in archival documents, reveals forms of attachment that operate beyond the text itself. The figure of Sor Sança and the Beguine milieu in Barcelona makes this especially visible, where proximity to Birgitta, through relics, reputation, or remembered presence, becomes a resource in moments of institutional tension. By following these traces, the article shifts the focus from textual transmission to relational intensity, showing how authority, devotion, and meaning are produced through entanglement rather than structure.
David Carrillo-Rangel (Sun,) studied this question.