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The Guitar of God - Gender, Power, and Authority in the Visionary World of Mother Juana de la Cruz, 1481-1534 (Hardcover)
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The Guitar of God - Gender, Power, and Authority in the Visionary World of Mother Juana de la Cruz, 1481-1534 (Hardcover)
Series: Anniversary Collection
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Until recently, Spanish literary historiography has virtually
ignored hundreds of women who wrote between 1500 and 1700. Most of
them wrote to record, defend, and disseminate their spiritual
visions, for despite the general disempowerment of Spanish women,
female visionaries enjoyed considerable authority. This book
recovers and examines the visionary experiences of Mother Juana de
la Cruz, the most famous of these women during her lifetime and for
two centuries afterwards. Born of peasant stock, she became abbess
of a Franciscan convent and a mystic who was visited not only by
Cardinal Cisneros, but by Emperor Charles V himself. Ronald E.
Surtz places Mother Juana's visions in the religious and social
context of the age and discusses such pertinent biographical
elements as the nun's own androgyny. His focus is on the questions
of gender, power, and authority, so pertinent to our own age. The
Guitar of God will be of particular interest to scholars and
students of late medieval Spanish culture, religion, and history,
and women's studies.
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