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Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz : selected writings.
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ISBN: 0809105306 0809140128 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York Paulist Press

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The Mystic of Tunja : the writings of Madre Castillo, 1671-1742
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ISBN: 0585142122 9780585142128 1558490744 9781558490741 1122054726 9781122054720 Year: 1997 Publisher: Amherst: University of Massachusetts press,

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Nuns as historians in early modern Germany
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ISBN: 0199256713 0191719692 1280446900 0191555134 Year: 2002 Volume: *12 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon


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La vie écrite : Thérèse de Lisieux
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ISBN: 9782251900063 2251900063 2251902619 2251338292 Year: 2011 Volume: 6 Publisher: Paris : Belles lettres,

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Convent autobiography : early modern English nuns in exile
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ISBN: 9780197266571 0197266576 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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"Convent Autobiography reveals how English Catholic women wrote about themselves, their families, and their lives in a period where it was illegal to practice Catholicism in England. These nuns went into a two-fold kind of exile for their beliefs. They moved abroad and they "died to the world", trying to cut ties with family and friends. Yet their convents needed support from outsiders to thrive. The nuns studied here reveal how they navigated this through their letters, printed works, paintings, and prayers. Often times these women wrote anonymously, a common practice for nuns, monks, and devout people of many religious persuasions up until the twentieth century. But anonymity was not just a neutral way of signalling humility or deep religious belief; it could allow people to write about themselves a lot more than they would have while writing under their own name. Exploring how some nuns exploited this to shape their convent's chronicle around their own points of view, Convent Autobiography holds up a mirror to the think about the double-edged role of anonymity throughout history."


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Relation autobiographique : suivie de notes des cahiers.
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ISBN: 2204075914 9782204075916 Year: 2004 Volume: *3 Publisher: Paris Cerf

Colonial angels : narratives of gender and spirituality in Mexico, 1580-1750
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ISBN: 0292777485 0292777477 0292745192 Year: 2000 Publisher: Austin, Tex. University of Texas Press

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Spain's attempt to establish a "New Spain" in Mexico never fully succeeded, for Spanish institutions and cultural practices inevitably mutated as they came in contact with indigenous American outlooks and ways of life. This original, interdisciplinary book explores how writing by and about colonial religious women participated in this transformation, as it illuminates the role that gender played in imposing the Spanish empire in Mexico. The author argues that the New World context necessitated the creation of a new kind of writing. Drawing on previously unpublished writings by and about nuns in the convents of Mexico City, she investigates such topics as the relationship between hagiography and travel narratives, male visions of the feminine that emerge from the reworking of a nun's letters to her confessor into a hagiography, the discourse surrounding a convent's trial for heresy by the Inquisition, and the reports of Spanish priests who ministered to noble Indian women. This research rounds out colonial Mexican history by revealing how tensions between Spain and its colonies played out in the local, daily lives of women.

Thérèse de Lisieux par elle-meme : tous ses écrits de son entrée au Carmel (9 avril 1888) à Noel 1894 : scrupules et humiliations
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ISBN: 224655411X 222004002X 2220040976 2220039013 2246554217 2246546915 9782246546917 9782220040028 9782220040974 9782246554219 Year: 1997 Publisher: Paris Grasset


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Sacred communities, shared devotions : gender, material culture, and monasticism in late medieval Germany
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ISBN: 9782503541341 2503541348 Year: 2014 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols

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Sacred communities, shared devotions' takes us behind the gates of six medieval Saxon convents and into the lives of rich and noble nuns going about their daily labour of religion just before the Lutheran Reformation. Drawing on writings by and about the nuns, as well as an analysis of the costly art and architecture of their monasteries, June Mecham reveals how monastic women wielded their wealth to create a ritual environment dense with Christian images and meanings. Mecham argues that nuns chose devotions and rituals within the framework of a distinct material culture, influenced by local religious customs, gender structures, and social protocols. She questions perceived differences between monastic and lay piety, emphasizing instead the shared religious culture in which monastic and laywomen actively participated, and the continuity that shaped female devotion.

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