Convent Life in Colonial Mexico
Title | Convent Life in Colonial Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie Kirk |
Publisher | University Press of Florida |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2018-10-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0813063744 |
"A valuable and logical step in the progression of critical studies on convent writing. . . . We have moved from seeing women writers as working at the margins to seeing them as writing subjects."—Latin American Research Review "Consider[s] nuns not as merely secular or religious writers, but through the lens of interdisciplinary study, as multifaceted historical agents. . . . The importance of the kind of innovative theoretical work undertaken by this text . . . cannot be over-emphasized, and will offer a both provocative and illuminating read to scholars in a broad range of disciplines."—Journal of International Women’s Studies "Kirk reconstructs aspects of the lives of colonial nuns through close-up readings of select manuscripts and, additionally, of published primary sources. . . . A lively and provocative addition to the literature on colonial Mexico that offers new insights into the dynamics of religious community."—Bulletin of Latin American Research "A thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of community-building among colonial Latin American women."—A Contracorriente "A timely scholarly contribution to the field of gender and religion. . . . Presents a fresh look at convent literature by specifically analyzing alliances, friendships, and communities."—Colonial Latin American Historical Review "An interesting and ambitious study of the discourses associated with convent life in Mexico."—Catholic Historical Review
Indigenous Writings from the Convent
Title | Indigenous Writings from the Convent PDF eBook |
Author | M—nica D’az |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2010-10-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780816528530 |
"First peoples: new directions in ethnic studies"
Brides of Christ
Title | Brides of Christ PDF eBook |
Author | Asunción Lavrin |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 529 |
Release | 2008-05-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0804752834 |
Brides of Christ is a study of professed nuns and life in the convents of colonial Mexico.
A Tale of Two Communities
Title | A Tale of Two Communities PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie Louise Kirk |
Publisher | |
Pages | 666 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A Wild Country Out in the Garden
Title | A Wild Country Out in the Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Maria De San Jose |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 1999-12-22 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780253335814 |
"In Madre Maria's prose, a down-to-earth treatment of daily life both on a provincial hacienda and in a cloistered convent moves into passages rendering deep mystical absorption. As a charismatic woman living according to Counter Reformation guidelines in the New World, Maria de San Jose, through her writings, illuminates how class, race, gender - even birth order and convent prestige - helped shape the roles people played in society and the ways in which they contributed to community belief and identity." --Book Jacket.
Rebellious Nuns
Title | Rebellious Nuns PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Chowning |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2005-11-10 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0198040202 |
Nuns are hardly associated in the popular mind with rebellion and turmoil. In fact, convents have often been the scenes of conflict, but what went on behind the walls of convents was meant by the church to be mysterious. Great care was taken to prevent the "scandal" of factionalism in the nunneries from becoming widely known. This has made it very difficult to reconstruct the battles fought, the issues debated, and the relationships tested in such convents. Margaret Chowning has discovered a treasure-trove of documents that allow an intimate look at two crises that wracked the convent of La Purísima Concepción in San Miguel el Grande, New Spain (Mexico). At the heart of both rebellions were attempts by some nuns to impose a regimen of strict observance of their vows on the others, and the resistance mounted by those who had a different view of the convent and their own role in it. Would the community adopt as austere a lifestyle as they could endure, doing manual labor, suffering hunger and physical discomfort, deprived of the society of family and friends? Or would these women be allowed to lead comfortable and private lives when not at prayer? Accusations and counteraccusations flew. First one side and then the other seemed to have the upper hand. For a time, a mysterious and dramatic illness broke out among the rebellious nuns, capturing the limelight. Were they faking? Were they unconsciously influenced by their ringleader, the charismatic and manipulative young women who first experienced the "mal"? Rebellious Nuns covers the history of the convent from its founding in 1752 to the forced eviction of the nuns in 1863. While the period of rebellion is at the center of the narrative, Chowning also gives an account of the factors that led up to the crises and the rebellion's continuing repercussions on the convent in the decades to follow. Drawing on an abundance of sources, including numerous letters written by the bishop and local vicar as well as nuns of both factions, Chowning is able to give us not just the voices but the personalities of the nuns and other actors. In this way she makes it possible for us to empathize with all of them and to appreciate the complicated dynamics of having committed your life not only to God but to your community.
The Women of Colonial Latin America
Title | The Women of Colonial Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Migden Socolow |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2015-02-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521196655 |
A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.