Author:
Carvajal y Mendoza, Luisa de, 1566-1614.
ImprintToronto : Iter Inc. : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2014.
Descriptionxiv, 369 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Note:Autobiography is translated from: Camilo María Abad, S.J., ed. Luisa de Carvajal: Escritos autobiográficos. Espirituales Españoles, vol. 20. Barcelona : Juan Flors, 1966; Poetry is translated from: Luis Muñoz, Vida y virtudes de la venerable virgen doña Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza. Madrid : Casa Real, 1632. Rpt. 1897; Correspondence is translated from: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza. Epistolario y poesías. Ed. Jesús González Marañón and Camilo María Abad, S.J., vol. 179. Madrid : Biblioteca de Autores Españoles, 1965.
Note:Introduction -- The other voice -- Luisa de Carvajal's life writings -- The world of the Spanish nobility -- Early childhood reminiscences -- Adolescence and penintential discipline -- Spiritual poetry -- The sacred and the profane in Carvajal's spiritual poetry -- Correspondence -- Desire for martyrdom in England -- Missionary life in London -- A Roman priest in women's clothing -- The traffic in relics -- Circulating her life story -- Luisa de Carvajal's afterlife -- Autobiography -- Selected spiritual poems -- Selected correspondence.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-364) and index.
