Brides of Christ : conventual life in Colonial Mexico
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Brides of Christ : conventual life in Colonial Mexico
Stanford University Press, 2008
- : cloth
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [445]-484
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Brides of Christ invites the modern reader to follow the histories of colonial Mexican nuns inside the cloisters where they pursued a religious vocation or sought shelter from the world. Lavrin provides a complete overview of conventual life, including the early signs of vocation, the decision to enter a convent, profession, spiritual guidelines and devotional practices, governance, ceremonials, relations with male authorities and confessors, living arrangements, servants, sickness, and death rituals. Individual chapters deal with issues such as sexuality and the challenges to chastity in the cloisters and the little-known subject of the nuns' own writings as expressions of their spirituality. The foundation of convents for indigenous women receives special attention, because such religious communities existed nowhere else in the Spanish empire.
Table of Contents
Contents Acknowledgments 000 Introduction 000 1 The Path to the Convent 000 2 The Novice Becomes a Nun. 000 3 The Spiritual Meanings of Religious Life 000 4 Government, Hierarchies and Ceremonials 000 5 Daily Life in the Convent. 000 6 Body, Soul and Death 000 7 Sexuality: A Challenge to Chastity 000 8 Indian Brides of Christ 000 9 The Struggle over Vida Comun 000 10 Writing in the Cloisters 000 Epilogue 000 Appendix Convents of New Spain: Foundation Date and Religious Affiliation 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Printed Primary Sources 000 Index 000
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