Research Catalog

The souls of purgatory : the spiritual diary of a seventeenth-century Afro-Peruvian mystic, Ursula de Jesús

Title
The souls of purgatory : the spiritual diary of a seventeenth-century Afro-Peruvian mystic, Ursula de Jesús / Ursula de Jesús ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by Nancy E. van Deusen.
Author
Jesús, Ursula de, 1604-1666.
Publication
Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press, 2004.

Available Online

Table of contents

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Request for On-site UseRequest Scan

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

TextUse in library Sc E 04-1383Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

Details

Additional Authors
Van Deusen, Nancy E.
Description
x, 221 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Diálogos
Uniform Title
  • Diary. Selections. English & Spanish
  • Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Alternative Title
Diary.
Subject
  • Jesús, Ursula de, 1604-1666 > Diaries
  • Women mystics > Peru > Diaries
  • Women, Black > Peru > Diaries
  • Purgatory
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-216) and index.
Contents
The world of Ursula de Jesús -- Ursula's life story : portraits and portrayals -- A walk through Lima -- Ursula's early childhood -- A niche of female mysticism -- Life in the convent of Santa Clara -- "In the grave I may speak through stones" : purgatory and popular perceptions of the beyond -- "Apostles of the dead": medieval female intercession -- Early modern European and Latin American visionaries -- Ambassadresses to the beyond in seventeenth-century Lima -- The singularities of Ursula de Jesús -- The text -- Translation of Ursula's Diary -- Selections from Ursula's Diary.
Call Number
Sc E 04-1383
ISBN
  • 082632827X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0826328288 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2004011779
OCLC
55534773
Author
Jesús, Ursula de, 1604-1666.
Title
The souls of purgatory : the spiritual diary of a seventeenth-century Afro-Peruvian mystic, Ursula de Jesús / Ursula de Jesús ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by Nancy E. van Deusen.
Imprint
Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press, 2004.
Series
Diálogos
Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-216) and index.
Connect to:
Table of contents
Local Subject
Black author.
Added Author
Van Deusen, Nancy E.
Research Call Number
Sc E 04-1383
View in Legacy Catalog