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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 / 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.

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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
Genre/Form
Diaries.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references 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.
ISBN
  • 082632827X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0826328288 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2004011779
OCLC
  • ocm55534773
  • SCSB-1347076
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library