Escogidas plantas
Subtitle: Nuns and beatas in Mexico City, 1531-1601
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002
Language: eng
Format: Unknown Binding
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780231503747
Subjects: 16th century; Church history; Convents; Electronic books; History; Mexico City; Mexico City (Mexico); Monasticism and religious orders for women; Religious life; Religious life and customs; Social life and customs; Women; Women in Christianity
Description: With this book, Jacqueline Holler demonstrates how early members of religious orders in Mexico were conceived of as an extension of the process of conversion and spiritual conquest. Over time, however, the creation of convents became a means of reaffirming the European nature of the colony, at least for its upper classes. Holler's work is based on archival research in both Mexico and Spain. It integrates much of the existing historiography while effectively telling individual stories and allowing the personalities, strengths, and foibles of some of the women involved to carry the history forward. This book is an important contribution to the growing literature on women in colonial Latin America.