This tight embrace /
"Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza was a Spanish noblewoman born in 1566 to wealth and privilege. After a remarkable childhood and youth marred by numerous family deaths and abuse, she rejected her exalted social status to embrace the life of a poor holy woman in the urban centers of Madrid and Valla...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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Milwaukee Wisc. :
Marquette University Press,
2000
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| Series: | Reformation texts with translation (1350-1650). Women of the Reformation ;
v. 2. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza was a Spanish noblewoman born in 1566 to wealth and privilege. After a remarkable childhood and youth marred by numerous family deaths and abuse, she rejected her exalted social status to embrace the life of a poor holy woman in the urban centers of Madrid and Valladolid." "This Tight Embrace includes a complete biographical study of Carvajal, followed by selections from each of the genres of writing she practiced: her spiritual life story, her religious vows, her poetry, the Rule she wrote for her Society of the Sovereign Virgin Mary, and her letters."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-306) and index. |
| Language: | Texts in Spanish with parallel English translation, introduction and postscript in English. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
| Action Note: | digitized |
