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Neither saints nor sinners : writing the lives of women in Spanish America.

Kathleen Myers brings together the portraits and autobiographical texts of six 17th century Latin American women, drawing on primary sources that include Inquisition and canonisation records, confessional and mystic journals, and legal defenses and petitions.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Myers, Kathleen Ann
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:Includes excerpts from seventeenth century texts translated from Spanish.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Nuns > Latin America > Biography > History and criticism.
Latin American literature > To 1800 > History and criticism.
Religieuses > Amérique latine > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Littérature latino-américaine > Jusqu'à 1800 > Histoire et critique.
RELIGION > Institutions & Organizations.
Latin American literature
Nuns > Biography
Latin America
To 1800
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:Kathleen Myers brings together the portraits and autobiographical texts of six 17th century Latin American women, drawing on primary sources that include Inquisition and canonisation records, confessional and mystic journals, and legal defenses and petitions.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-264) and index.
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