A Wild Country Out in the Garden

The Spiritual Journals of a Colonial Mexican Nun

424 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Madre Maria de San Jose (1656 - 1719)-mystic, chronicler, and co-founder of an Augustinian convent-inscribed her life story within the model of spiritual autobiography set by St. Augustine and Teresa of Avila, but at the same time included her individual story as a seventeenth-century woman of the landowning classes in New Spain. The resulting manuscript records in intimate detail her family life, convent surroundings, and social milieu; it introduces us to a combative and engaging person and gives us a rare and vivid glimpse of a complex society.

• Reihe: Indiana University Press
• ISBN: 9780253335814
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.12.1999
• Größe: 240 x 161 mm
• Verlag: Indiana University Press