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Autobiography and other writings / Ana de San Bartolomé ; edited and translated by Darcy Donahue.
LIBRA BX4705.A5695 A3 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anne of St. Bartholomew, Mother, 1550-1626.
- Series:
- Other voice in early modern Europe
- The other voice in early modern Europe
- Standardized Title:
- Autobiografia. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Anne of St. Bartholomew, Mother, 1550-1626.
- Anne of St. Bartholomew.
- Nuns--Belgium--Antwerp--Biography.
- Nuns.
- Belgium--Antwerp.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 167 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- Ana de San Bartolome (1549-1626), a contemporary and close associate of St. Teresa of Avila, typifies the curious blend of religious activism and spiritual forcefulness that characterized the first generation of Discalced, or reformed, Carmelites. Known for their austerity and ethics, their convents quickly spread throughout Spain and, under Ana's guidance, also to France and the Low Countries. Constantly embroiled in disputes with her male superiors, Ana quickly became the most vocal and visible of these mystical women and the most fearless of the guardians of the Carmelite Constitution, especially after Teresa's death.
- Her autobiography, clearly inseparable from her religious vocation, expresses the tensions and conflicts that often accompanied the lives of women whose relationship to the divine endowed them with an authority at odds with the worldly powers of church and state. Translated into English for the first time since 1916, Ana's writings give modern readers fascinating insights into the nature of monastic life during the highly charged religious and political climate of late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century Spain.
- Contents:
- Autobiography of Ana de San Bartolome 37
- A "An Account of the Foundation at Burgos" 115
- B "Prayer in Abandonment" (1607) 127
- C Spiritual Lectures (Pontoise, July 1605) 131
- D Chronology of the Life of Ana de San Bartolome 141.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226143712
- 9780226143729
- 0226143716
- 0226143724
- OCLC:
- 212627130
- Online:
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- Publisher description
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