Writing Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain: The Mothers of Saint

Writing Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain: The Mothers of Saint Teresa of Avila (Anniversary Collection)

Literature & Fiction

Surtz, Ronald E.

History & Criticism

University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection

Until recently, Spanish literary historiography has virtually ignored hundreds of women who wrote between 1500 and 1700. Most of them wrote to record, defend, and disseminate their spiritual visions, for despite the general disempowerment of Spanish women, female visionaries enjoyed considerable authority.
This book recovers and examines the visionary experiences of Mother Juana de la Cruz, the most famous of these women during her lifetime and for two centuries afterwards. Born of peasant stock, she became abbess of a Franciscan convent and a mystic who was visited not only by Cardinal Cisneros, but by Emperor Charles V himself. Ronald E. Surtz places Mother Juana's visions in the religious and social context of the age and discusses such pertinent biographical elements as the nun's own androgyny. His focus is on the questions of gender, power, and authority, so pertinent to our own age.
The Guitar of God will be of particular interest to scholars and students of late medieval Spanish culture, religion, and history, and women's studies.

The Guitar of God: Gender, Power, and Authority in the Visionary World of Mother Juana de la Cruz, 1481-1534 (Anniversary Collection)

Religion & Spirituality

Creation and Re-Creation: Experiments in Literary Form in Early Modern Spain

Weinerth, Nora

Juan de la Cuesta

SURTZ, R. E. / J. FERRAN / D. P. TESTA, EDS.: AMERICO CASTRO: THE IMPACT OF HIS THOUGHT. ESSAYS TO MARK THE CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH[HARDBACK] . , 1988, xv 267 p. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Americo Castro: The Impact of His Thought : Essays to Mark the Centenary of His Birth

Biographies & Memoirs

Ferran, Jaime

Community & Culture

Hispanic Seminary of

TEATRO CASTELLANO DE EDAD MEDIA TCL013 CT 13 (Spanish Edition)

Catedra Garcia, Pedro Manuel

History

Taurus

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