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Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire (Diálogos Series)
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About Nuns Navigating The Spanish Empire
Product Description 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 Jerónima de la Asunción (1556â€"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 Jerónima is familiar to art historians for her portrait by Velázquez 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 (1565â€"1636), wrote a long biographical account of Sor Jerónima and their fifteen-month odyssey. Drawing from Sor Ana’s manuscript, other archival sources, and rare books, Owens’s study offers a fascinating view of travel, evangelization, and empire. Review "Sarah Owens, a professor of Spanish at the College of Charleston, has successfully used Sor Ana's account and other records to give life to an intrepid group of settlers. She also reveals how women played powerful roles in shaping the Spanish empire overseas in the early modern era. This book offers valuable insight into social dynamics after the wars of Spanish global conquest, when the conquistadors became administrators and settlers, remaking cities in their own Hispanic image." ― Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.) From the Back Cover This book provides a rigorous and multidisciplinary approach to its subject, with a particular focus on history, biography, and textual criticism, all framed to bring out female voice, vision, and agency. It is a must-read for scholars of Latin American colonial literature, history, and gender and women's studies. (Kathryn Joy McKnight, author of The Mystic of Tunja: The Writings of Madre Castillo, 1671-1742) About the Author Sarah E. Owens is Professor of Spanish at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. She is the editor and translator of Journey of Five Capuchin Nuns and the coeditor of Women of the Iberian Atlantic .
