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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés Español |
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Milwaukee Wisc. :
Marquette University Press,
2000.
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| Collection: | Reformation texts with translation (1350-1650). Women of the Reformation ;
v. 2. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | "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. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-306) and index. |