Religious Women in Golden Age Spain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Women in Golden Age Spain write by Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Religious Women in Golden Age Spain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through an examination of the role of nuns and the place of convents in both the spiritual and social landscape, this book analyzes the interaction of gender, religion and society in late medieval and early modern Spain. Author Elizabeth Lehfeldt here examines the tension between religious reform, which demanded that all nuns observe strict enclosure, and the traditional identity of Spanish nuns and their institutions, in which they were spiritually and temporally powerful women. Lehfeldt's work is based on the archival records of twenty-three convents in the city of Valladolid, and peninsula-wide documents that include visitation records, the constitutions of religious orders, and spiritual biographies. Religious Women in Golden Age Spain is the first book-length study in English to pose this chronological and conceptual framework for identifying and analyzing the role of nuns and convents in late-medieval and early-modern Spanish society.
Spanish Women in the Golden Age
Spanish Women in the Golden Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spanish Women in the Golden Age write by Alain Saint-Saens. This book was released on 1996-02-13. Spanish Women in the Golden Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The history of women in early modern Spain is a largely untapped field. This book opens the field substantially by examining the position of women in religious, political, literary, and economic life. Drawing on both historical and literary approaches, the contributors challenge the portrait of Spanish women as passive and marginalized, showing that despite forces working to exclude them, women in Golden Age Spain influenced religious life and politics and made vital contributions to economic and cultural life. The contributors seek to incorporate the study of Spanish women into the current work on literary criticism and on the intersection of private and public spheres. The authors integrate women into subfields of Spanish history and literature, such as Inquisition studies, the Spanish monarchy, Spain's economic and political decline, and Golden Age drama. The essays demonstrate the necessity and value of incorporating women into the study of Golden Age Spain.
Religious Women in Golden Age Spain
Religious Women in Golden Age Spain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Women in Golden Age Spain write by Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Religious Women in Golden Age Spain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through an examination of the role of nuns and the place of convents in both the spiritual and social landscape, this book analyzes the interaction of gender, religion and society in late medieval and early modern Spain. Author Elizabeth Lehfeldt here examines the tension between religious reform, which demanded that all nuns observe strict enclosure, and the traditional identity of Spanish nuns and their institutions, in which they were spiritually and temporally powerful women. Lehfeldt's work is based on the archival records of twenty-three convents in the city of Valladolid, and peninsula-wide documents that include visitation records, the constitutions of religious orders, and spiritual biographies. Religious Women in Golden Age Spain is the first book-length study in English to pose this chronological and conceptual framework for identifying and analyzing the role of nuns and convents in late-medieval and early-modern Spanish society.
Between Exaltation and Infamy
Between Exaltation and Infamy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between Exaltation and Infamy write by Stephen Haliczer. This book was released on 2002-08-29. Between Exaltation and Infamy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One day in 1599, in the Spanish village of Saria, seven-year-old Maria Angela Astorch fell ill and died after gorging herself on unripened almonds. Maria's sister Isabel, a nun, came to view the body with her mother superior, an ecstatic mystic and visionary named Maria Angela Serafina. Overcome by the sight of the dead girl's innocent face, Serafina began to pray fervently for the return of the child's soul to her body. Entering a trance, she had a vision in which the Virgin Mary gave her a sign. At once little Maria Angela started to show signs of life. A moment later she scrambled to the ground and was soon restored to perfect health. During the Counter-Reformation, the Church was confronted by an extraordinary upsurge of feminine religious enthusiasm like that of Serafina. Inspired by new translations of the lives of the saints, devout women all over Catholic Europe sought to imitate these "athletes of Christ" through extremes of self-abnegation, physical mortification, and devotion. As in the Middle Ages, such women's piety often took the form of ecstatic visions, revelations, voices and stigmata. Stephen Haliczer offers a comprehensive portrait of women's mysticism in Golden Age Spain, where this enthusiasm was nearly a mass movement. The Church's response, he shows, was welcoming but wary, and the Inquisition took on the task of winnowing out frauds and imposters. Haliczer draws on fifteen cases brought by the Inquisition against women accused of "feigned sanctity," and on more than two dozen biographies and autobiographies. The key to acceptance, he finds, lay in the orthodoxy of the woman's visions and revelations. He concludes that mysticism offered women a way to transcend, though not to disrupt, the control of the male-dominated Church.
The Sacrament of Penance and Religious Life in Golden Age Spain
The Sacrament of Penance and Religious Life in Golden Age Spain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sacrament of Penance and Religious Life in Golden Age Spain write by Patrick J. O'Banion. This book was released on 2012. The Sacrament of Penance and Religious Life in Golden Age Spain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Explores the role of the sacrament of penance in the religion and society of early modern Spain. Examines how secular and ecclesiastical authorities used confession to defend against heresy and to bring reforms to the Catholic Chiurch"--Provided by publishers.
