This tight embrace /

"Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza was a Spanish noblewoman born in 1566 to wealth and privilege. After a remarkable childhood and youth marred by numerous family deaths and abuse, she rejected her exalted social status to embrace the life of a poor holy woman in the urban centers of Madrid and Valla...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Carvajal y Mendoza, Luisa de, 1566-1614
Other Authors: Rhodes, Elizabeth, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Español
Published: Milwaukee Wisc. : Marquette University Press, 2000.
Series:Reformation texts with translation (1350-1650). Women of the Reformation ; v. 2.
Subjects:
Carvajal y Mendoza, Luisa de, > 1566-1614.
Carvajal y Mendoza, Luisa de > Correspondence.
Carvajal y Mendoza, Luisa de, > 1566-1614
Christian poetry, Spanish > Translations into English.
Catholics > England > Correspondence.
Spiritual life > Catholic Church.
Vie spirituelle > Église catholique.
Catholics
Christian poetry, Spanish
Spiritual life > Catholic Church
Contrareformatie.
England
Engeland.
personal correspondence.
Personal correspondence
Translations
Personal correspondence.
Correspondance privée.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza was a Spanish noblewoman born in 1566 to wealth and privilege. After a remarkable childhood and youth marred by numerous family deaths and abuse, she rejected her exalted social status to embrace the life of a poor holy woman in the urban centers of Madrid and Valladolid." "This Tight Embrace includes a complete biographical study of Carvajal, followed by selections from each of the genres of writing she practiced: her spiritual life story, her religious vows, her poetry, the Rule she wrote for her Society of the Sovereign Virgin Mary, and her letters."--Jacket.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-306) and index.

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