Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire
Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire tells the remarkable story of a group of nuns who traveled halfway around the globe in the seventeenth century to establish the first female Franciscan convent in the Far East.In 1620 Sor Jer?ima de la Asunci? (1556? 1630) and her cofounders left their cloistered convent in Toledo, Spain, journeying to Mexico to board a Manila galleon on their way to the Philippines. Sor Jer?ima is familiar to art historians for her portrait by Vel?quez that hangs in the Prado Museum in Madrid. What most people do not know is that one of her travel companions, Sor Ana de Cristo (1565? 1636), wrote a long biographical account…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8263-5894-3
- EAN: 9780826358943
- Produktnummer: 22903243
- Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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