TY - BOOK ID - 598224 TI - The fabric of Marian devotion in Isabel de Villena's Vita Christi AU - Twomey, Lesley K. AU - Tamesis PY - 2013 VL - 313 SN - 9781855662483 1855662485 PB - Woodbridge Tamesis DB - UniCat KW - Elionor Manuel de Villena KW - Monasticism and religious orders for women KW - Women in the Bible KW - Monachisme et ordres religieux féminins KW - Femmes dans la Bible KW - History KW - Early works to 1800 KW - Histoire KW - Ouvrages avant 1800 KW - Mary, KW - Biography KW - Monachisme et ordres religieux féminins KW - Early works to 1800. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:598224 AB - Isabel de Villena (1430-1490) is one of the most fascinating women of the Spanish Middle Ages. Related to the royal family, she became abbess of the Poor Clare convent, the Santa Trinitat, in Valencia in 1462, a position she held until her death in 1490. Her treatise on the religious life, 'Vita Christi', was the first book by a woman to be printed in the kingdom of Aragon. This is a full-length survey in English of Isabel's life and literary works. ER -