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Related Lives - Confessors and Their Female Penitents, 1450-1750 (Hardcover)
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Related Lives - Confessors and Their Female Penitents, 1450-1750 (Hardcover)
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In early modern Catholic Europe and its colonies priests frequently
developed close relationships with pious women, serving as their
spiritual directors during their lives, and their biographers after
their deaths. In this richly illustrated book, Jodi Bilinkoff
explores the ways in which clerics related to those female
penitents whom they determined were spiritually gifted, and how
they conveyed the live stories of these women to readers. The
resulting popular literatures of hagiography and spiritual
autobiography produced hundreds of texts designed to establish
models of behavior for the Catholic faithful in the period between
the advent of printing and the beginning of the modern
age.Bilinkoff finds that confessional relations and the texts that
document them reveal much about gender and social values. She uses
life narratives, primarily from Spain, but also from France, Italy,
Portugal, Spanish America, and French Canada, to examine the ways
in which clerics presented female penitents as exemplary, and how
they constructed their own identities around their interactions
with exceptional women. These multilayered texts, she suggests,
offer compelling accounts of individuals caught up in the pursuit
of holiness, and provide a key to understanding the resilience of
Catholic culture in an age of religious change and conflict.
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