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Autobiography and Letters of a Spanish Nun
María Vela Y Cueto • Jane Tar • Susan Diane Laningham
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When María Vela y Cueto (1561-1617) declared that God had personally ordered herto take only the Eucharist as food and to restore primitive dress and public penance in heraristocratic convent, theentire religious community, according to her confessor, "rose upin wrath." Yet, when Vela died, her peers joined with the populace to declare her a saint.In her autobiography and personal letters, Velaspeaks candidly of the obstacles, perils,and rewards of re-negotiating piety in a convent where devotion to God was no longerexpressed through rigorous asceticism. Vela's experience, told in herown words, revealsher shrewd understanding of the persuasive power of a woman's body.
- Format: Pocket/Paperback
- ISBN: 9780866985598
- Språk: Engelska
- Utgivningsdatum: 2016-11-01
- Förlag: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US