This article discusses a specific type of religious travel—not pious pilgrimage to the Holy Lands—but more mundane trips performed by Eastern Orthodox sisters to beg for donations within and between three multi-confessional empires. More specifically, it focuses on how nuns’ spatial movements put them on the bigger imperial and transnational maps of church, state, and society and contributed to negotiating space for gender. By combining mobility and gender as categories of analysis, I position the sisters’ acts within three broad themes: travel, women's education, and social networks. I suggest that nuns’ involvement in local communities and the establishment of schools for girls provides evidence for worldly as well as pious concerns. By encompassing rich social interactions, the sisters’ story presents gender imbalances in more palpable form and embodies larger experiences of nineteenth-century women who strove to achieve self-development and to assert social visibility.

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流浪的东正教修女：十九世纪巴尔干半岛中部的宗教与性别

本文讨论了一种特定类型的宗教旅行——不是虔诚的圣地朝圣——而是东正教姐妹进行的更平凡的旅行，在三个多信仰的帝国内部和之间乞求捐款。更具体地说，它关注修女的空间运动如何将她们置于更大的帝国和跨国教会、国家和社会的地图上，并为协商性别空间做出贡献。通过将流动性和性别作为分析的类别，我将姐妹们的行为定位在三个广泛的主题中：旅行、女性教育和社交网络。我认为修女参与当地社区和建立女子学校为世俗和虔诚的担忧提供了证据。通过包含丰富的社交互动，