Autobiography and Letters of a Spanish Nun
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
086698559X
ISBN-13
9780866985598
Publisher
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
Imprint
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 1st, 2016
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
338 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.80 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Biography: generalLiterature: history & criticismGender studies: women
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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.
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