Jesus,Ursula de (Author) and Nancy E. Van Deusen (Translator)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
221 p, 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
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
328 p, A collection of nearly 3,000 entries on people, objects, concepts, and language that make up the esoteric traditions. Coverage includes Eastern and Western worlds, the mythical and historical, as well as the contemporary and obscure
