The Mystic of Tunja : the writings of Madre Castillo, 1671-1742 / Kathryn Joy McKnight.

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McKnight, Kathryn Joy, 1961-

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TextPublication details: Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 284 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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0585142122
9780585142128
1122054726
9781122054720

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mystic of Tunja.DDC classification:

861 21

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PQ8179.C369 Z77 1997eb

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18.33

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Contents:

Interested readings -- The genre of the Vida Espiritual -- Religious women's writing in Spain and Spanish America -- Female monasticism: a life unbecoming? -- Madre Castillo in the institution: an ascension to power -- Su vida: spiritual trials and worldly troubles -- Su vida: holy archetypes -- The Afectos espirituales: mysticism of the incarnate word -- The Cuaderno de Enciso: a theology of humiliation and its mystic rewards.

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Summary: During the fifty-three years she lived in a convent in the city of Tunja in what is now Colombia, author Madre Castillo stretched the accepted boundaries of female behavior by veiling her intellectual activities in the duties of a colonial nun. Her autobiographical writings reveal a deeply conflicted individual whose keen mind chafed against the restrictions of Counter-Reformation ideology.Summary: In this volume, Kathryn Joy McKnight offers an insightful analysis of Madre Castillo's life and writings. McKnight draws on feminist and post-structural criticism, recent scholarship on nuns' writings, and extensive research in colonial archives to develop a framework for understanding Madre Castillo's life and the genre of the spiritual autobiography, so often required of mystic nuns by their confessors.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-268) and index.

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During the fifty-three years she lived in a convent in the city of Tunja in what is now Colombia, author Madre Castillo stretched the accepted boundaries of female behavior by veiling her intellectual activities in the duties of a colonial nun. Her autobiographical writings reveal a deeply conflicted individual whose keen mind chafed against the restrictions of Counter-Reformation ideology.

In this volume, Kathryn Joy McKnight offers an insightful analysis of Madre Castillo's life and writings. McKnight draws on feminist and post-structural criticism, recent scholarship on nuns' writings, and extensive research in colonial archives to develop a framework for understanding Madre Castillo's life and the genre of the spiritual autobiography, so often required of mystic nuns by their confessors.

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