Neither Saints Nor Sinners

Writing the Lives of Women in Spanish America

• Author(s): Kathleen Ann Myers,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 288
• ISBN_10: 0195348095
  ISBN_13: 9780195348095
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / Christianity / History , Literary Collections / Caribbean & Latin American , Social Science / Women's Studies , Religion / Christianity / General ,

Description:... This book brings together the portraits and autobiographical texts of six 17th-century Latin American women, drawing on primary sources that include Inquisition and canonization records, confessional and mystic journals, and legal defenses and petitions.