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Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Spanish Nun written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah E. Owens
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826358942
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire written by Sarah E. Owens and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Halftitle -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Unveiling the Manuscript -- Chapter One. Toledo to Cadiz -- Chapter Two. Cadiz to Mexico -- Chapter Three. The Manila Galleon -- Chapter Four. The Convent in Manila -- Chapter Five: Literacy and Inspirational Role Models -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Author : Thomas Downing Kendrick
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mary of Agreda written by Thomas Downing Kendrick and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catalina De Erauso
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807095664
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Lieutenant Nun written by Catalina De Erauso and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the earliest known autobiographies by a woman, this is the extraordinary tale of Catalina de Erauso, who in 1599 escaped from a Basque convent dressed as a man and went on to live one of the most wildly fantastic lives of any woman in history. A soldier in the Spanish army, she traveled to Peru and Chile, became a gambler, and even mistakenly killed her own brother in a duel. During her lifetime she emerged as the adored folkloric hero of the Spanish-speaking world. This delightful translation of Catalina's own work introduces a new audience to her audacious escapades.
Author : Alice Montgomery Baldy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Romance of a Spanish Nun written by Alice Montgomery Baldy and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Spanish Nun written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Horacio Sierra
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443819417
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Sanctified Subversives written by Horacio Sierra and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As chaste women devoted to God, nuns are viewed as the purest of the pure. Yet, as females who reject courtship, sex, marriage, child bearing, and materialism, they have been the anathema of how society has proscribed, expected, and regulated women: sex object, wife, mother, and capitalist consumer. They are perceived as otherworldly beings, yet revered for their salt-of-the-earth demeanor. This book illustrates how both English and Spanish Renaissance-era authors latched onto the figure of the nun as a way to evaluate the social construction of womanhood. This analysis of the nun’s role in the popular imagination via literature explores how writers on both sides of the Catholic-Protestant divide employed the role of the nun to showcase the powerful potential these women possessed in acting out as sanctified subversives. The texts under consideration include William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure, María de Zayas’s The Disenchantments of Love, Aphra Behn’s The History of the Nun, Catalina de Erauso’s The Lieutenant Nun, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s autobiographical and literary works. No other book addresses these issues through a concentrated study of these authors and their literary works, much less by offering an in-depth discussion of the literature and culture of seventeenth-century England, Spain, and Mexico.
Author : James M. Córdova
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292753152
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The Art of Professing in Bourbon Mexico written by James M. Córdova and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Offering a pioneering interpretation of the "crowned nun" portrait, this book explores how visual culture contributed to local identity formation in Mexico"--
Author : Clark Colahan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816545987
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Visions of Sor María de Agreda written by Clark Colahan and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sor María de Agreda (1602-65) was a Spanish nun and visionary who is best known as the author of the widely read biography of the Virgin Mary, The Mystical City of God, and as the missionary who "bilocated" to the American Southwest, reportedly appearing to Indians there without ever leaving Spain. Her role as advisor to King Philip IV contributed further to her legend. Clark Colahan now offers the first major study of Sor María's writings, including translations of two previously unpublished works: Face of the Earth and Map of the Spheres and the first half of her Report to Father Manero, in which she reflects on her bilocation.
Author : Maraia Vela
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780866987271
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Maraia Vela Y Cueto written by Maraia Vela and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Magdalena S. Sánchez
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Empress, the Queen, and the Nun written by Magdalena S. Sánchez and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Magdalena Sanchez offers an intriguing examination of the political power wielded by three women of the 17th-century court of Philip III of Spain--Empress Maria, Philip's grandmother; Margaret of Austria, Philip's wife; and Margaret of the Cross, Philip's aunt--all of whom worked behind the scenes to win favor for the causes of the Austrian Habsburgs. 13 illustrations.
Author : James Wimsett Boulding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Catalina, the Spanish Nun; and Other Poems written by James Wimsett Boulding and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas De Quincey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers: The household wreck. The Spanish nun. Flight of a Tartar tribe written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : César Aira
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811219828
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book How I Became a Nun written by César Aira and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A good story and first-rate social science."—New York Times Book Review. A sinisterly funny modern-day Through the Looking Glass that begins with cyanide poisoning and ends in strawberry ice cream. The idea of the Native American living in perfect harmony with nature is one of the most cherished contemporary myths. But how truthful is this larger-than-life image? According to anthropologist Shepard Krech, the first humans in North America demonstrated all of the intelligence, self-interest, flexibility, and ability to make mistakes of human beings anywhere. As Nicholas Lemann put it in The New Yorker, "Krech is more than just a conventional-wisdom overturner; he has a serious larger point to make. . . . Concepts like ecology, waste, preservation, and even the natural (as distinct from human) world are entirely anachronistic when applied to Indians in the days before the European settlement of North America." "Offers a more complex portrait of Native American peoples, one that rejects mythologies, even those that both European and Native Americans might wish to embrace."—Washington Post "My story, the story of 'how I became a nun,' began very early in my life; I had just turned six. The beginning is marked by a vivid memory, which I can reconstruct down to the last detail. Before, there is nothing, and after, everything is an extension of the same vivid memory, continuous and unbroken, including the intervals of sleep, up to the point where I took the veil ." So starts Cesar Aira's astounding "autobiographical" novel. Intense and perfect, this invented narrative of childhood experience bristles with dramatic humor at each stage of growing up: a first ice cream, school, reading, games, friendship. The novel begins in Aira's hometown, Coronel Pringles. As self-awareness grows, the story rushes forward in a torrent of anecdotes which transform a world of uneventful happiness into something else: the anecdote becomes adventure, and adventure, fable, and then legend. Between memory and oblivion, reality and fiction, Cesar Aira's How I Became a Nun retains childhood's main treasures: the reality of fable and the delirium of invention. A few days after his fiftieth birthday, Aira noticed the thin rim of the moon, visible despite the rising sun. When his wife explained the phenomenon to him he was shocked that for fifty years he had known nothing about "something so obvious, so visible." This epiphany led him to write How I Became a Nun. With a subtle and melancholic sense of humor he reflects on his failures, on the meaning of life and the importance of literature.
Author : Sarah E. Owens
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826358950
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire written by Sarah E. Owens and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire tells the remarkable story of a group of nuns who traveled halfway around the globe in the seventeenth century to establish the first female Franciscan convent in the Far East. In 1620 Sor Jerónima de la Asunción (1556–1630) and her cofounders left their cloistered convent in Toledo, Spain, journeying to Mexico to board a Manila galleon on their way to the Philippines. Sor Jerónima is familiar to art historians for her portrait by Velázquez that hangs in the Prado Museum in Madrid. What most people do not know is that one of her travel companions, Sor Ana de Cristo (1565–1636), wrote a long biographical account of Sor Jerónima and their fifteen-month odyssey. Drawing from Sor Ana’s manuscript, other archival sources, and rare books, Owens’s study offers a fascinating view of travel, evangelization, and empire.
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Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826521053
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Black Bride of Christ written by and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teresa de Santo Domingo, born with the name Chicaba, was a slave captured in the territory known to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Spanish and Portuguese navigators and slave traffickers as La Mina Baja del Oro, the part of West Africa that extends through present-day eastern Ghana, Togo, Benin, and western Nigeria. Upon the death of her Spanish master, Chicaba was freed to enter a convent. The Dominicans of La Penitencia in Salamanca accepted her after she had been rejected by several other monasteries because of her skin color. Even in her own religious community, race put her at a disadvantage in the highly stratified social hierarchy of monastic houses of the era. Her life story is known to us through a document entitled Compendio de la vida ejemplar de la Venerable Madre Sor Teresa Juliana de Santo Domingo, which is the foundational documentary evidence in the case for beatification of this nun, and as such it is the most significant and comprehensive source of information about her. This volume, the first English translation of the Compendio, is a hagiography, an example of a biographical genre that recounts the lives and describes the spiritual practices of saints officially canonized by the Church, respected ecclesiastical leaders, or holy people informally recognized by local devotees. The effort to have Chicaba canonized continues today, as Fra-Molinero and Houchins explore in their introduction to the volume.
Author : María Vela Y Cueto
Publisher : Iter Press
ISBN 13 : 9780866985598
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Autobiography and Letters of a Spanish Nun written by María Vela Y Cueto and published by Iter Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When María Vela y Cueto (1561–1617) declared that God had personally ordered her to take only the Eucharist as food and to restore primitive dress and public penance in her aristocratic convent, the entire religious community, according to her confessor, “rose up in wrath.” Yet, when Vela died, her peers joined with the populace to declare her a saint. In her autobiography and personal letters, Vela speaks candidly of the obstacles, perils, and rewards of re-negotiating piety in a convent where devotion to God was no longer expressed through rigorous asceticism. Vela’s experience, told in her own words, reveals her shrewd understanding of the persuasive power of a woman’s body.
