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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-18 - Publisher: University Press of Florida

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"A valuable and logical step in the progression of critical studies on convent writing. . . . We have moved from seeing women writers as working at the margins
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Brides of Christ
Language: en
Pages: 529
Authors: Asunción Lavrin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-05-13 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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Brides of Christ is a study of professed nuns and life in the convents of colonial Mexico.
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In the eighteenth century, New Spaniards (colonial Mexicans) so lauded their nuns that they developed a local tradition of visually opulent portraits, called mo
Rebellious Nuns
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Authors: Margaret Chowning
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Nuns are hardly associated in the popular mind with rebellion and turmoil. In fact, convents have often been the scenes of conflict, but what went on behind the