The fabric of Marian devotion in Isabel de Villena's Vita Christi / Lesley K. Twomey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Twomey, Lesley K.

Series:

Colección Támesis. Monografías ; Serie A, 313.

Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografias ; 313

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Villena, Isabel de, 1430-1490. Vita Christi.

Monasticism and religious orders for women--Spain--History.

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.

Monasticism and religious orders for women.

History.

Spain.

Valencia (Spain)--History--15th century.

Villena, Isabel de; Vita Christi.

Local Subjects:

Villena, Isabel de; Vita Christi.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk : Tamesis, 2013.

Summary:

Isabel de Villena (1430-1490) is one of the most fascinating women of the Spanish Middle Ages. Related to the royal family, she became abbess of the Poor Clare convent, the Santa Trinitat, in Valencia in 1462, a position she held until her death in 1490. Her treatise on the religious life, 'Vita Christi', was the first book by a woman to be printed in the kingdom of Aragon. This is a full-length survey in English of Isabel's life and literary works.

Contents:

Isabel de Villena : her life and times

Reading the Vita Christi

Veiled bodies

Reading red : deepening understanding of red in the Vita Christi

For richer, for poorer : redrawing the boundaries in the Vita Christi

The fabric of society : dressing, undressing, and gifting in Sor Isabel's writing

Shoes, shoes, shoes : stepping out in style

The crown of stars and Franciscan rosary devotions

Literary liturgy : Sor Isabel's processions and prayers

Conclusion

Appendix : selected chapters translated from the Vita Christi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-280) and index.

ISBN:

9781855662483

1855662485

OCLC:

794041605