Between Exaltation and Infamy: Female Mystics in the Golden Age of Spain

by StephenHaliczer (Author)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $37.09

  Using case-studies and biographies, this book looks at women's mysticism in 16th- and 17th-century Spain. The author investigates the forces that caused these individuals to choose this life. He shows how mysticism provided women with a way to transcend the control of the male-dominated Church.