The souls of purgatory
Subtitle: the spiritual diary of a seventeenth-century Afro-Peruvian mystic, Ursula de Jesús
By: translated, edited, and with an introduction by Nancy E. van Deusen.
Contributors: Van Deusen, Nancy E.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Diálogos; Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Albuquerque, N.M
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Jesús, Ursula de, 1604-1666 -- Diaries; Women mystics -- Peru -- Diaries; Women, Black -- Peru -- Diaries; Purgatory
Genres: Diaries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The world of Ursula de Jesús; title: Ursula's life story : portraits and portrayals; title: A walk through Lima; title: Ursula's early childhood; title: A niche of female mysticism; title: Life in the convent of Santa Clara; title: "In the grave I may speak through stones" : purgatory and popular perceptions of the beyond; title: "Apostles of the dead": medieval female intercession; title: Early modern European and Latin American visionaries; title: Ambassadresses to the beyond in seventeenth-century Lima; title: The singularities of Ursula de Jesús; title: The text; title: Translation of Ursula's Diary; title: Selections from Ursula's Diary.