Book for the Hour of RecreationUniversity of Chicago Press, 2007 M11 1 - 203 páginas María de San José Salazar (1548-1603) took the veil as a Discalced ("barefoot") Carmelite nun in 1571, becoming one of Teresa of Avila's most important collaborators in religious reform and serving as prioress of the Seville and Lisbon convents. Within the parameters of the strict Catholic Reformation in Spain, María fiercely defended women's rights to define their own spiritual experience and to teach, inspire, and lead other women in reforming their church. María wrote this book as a defense of the Discalced practice of setting aside two hours each day for conversation, music, and staging of religious plays. Casting the book in the form of a dialogue, María demonstrates through fictional conversations among a group of nuns during their hours of recreation how women could serve as very effective spiritual teachers for each other. The book includes one of the first biographical portraits of Teresa and Maria's personal account of the troubled founding of the Discalced convent at Seville, as well as her tribulations as an Inquisitional suspect. Rich in allusions to women's affective relationships in the early modern convent, Book for the Hour of Recreation also serves as an example of how a woman might write when relatively free of clerical censorship and expectations. A detailed introduction and notes by Alison Weber provide historical and biographical context for Amanda Powell's fluid translation. |
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Página ix
... virtues . The setting for this proposal is the imaginary and ideal Republic that Plato sketches in a dialogue of that name . Here , for a privileged elite capable of leading wisely , all distinctions of class and wealth dissolve , as do ...
... virtues . The setting for this proposal is the imaginary and ideal Republic that Plato sketches in a dialogue of that name . Here , for a privileged elite capable of leading wisely , all distinctions of class and wealth dissolve , as do ...
Página xvii
... virtues of chastity, silence, and obedience. Women who were active in the public realm, for example, rulers and ... virtue as exceptional, she depicts it as universal. Many women in history were leaders, or remained chaste despite ...
... virtues of chastity, silence, and obedience. Women who were active in the public realm, for example, rulers and ... virtue as exceptional, she depicts it as universal. Many women in history were leaders, or remained chaste despite ...
Página xviii
... virtue and achievement. A cameo of the debate on women is included in the Courtier, one of the most read books of the era, published by the Italian Baldassare Castiglione in 1528 and immediately translated into other European ...
... virtue and achievement. A cameo of the debate on women is included in the Courtier, one of the most read books of the era, published by the Italian Baldassare Castiglione in 1528 and immediately translated into other European ...
Página xxi
... virtue—in contrast to courage, or generosity, or lead- ership, or rationality, seen as virtues characteristic of men. Opponents of women charged them with insatiable lust. Women themselves and their Introduction to the Series xxi.
... virtue—in contrast to courage, or generosity, or lead- ership, or rationality, seen as virtues characteristic of men. Opponents of women charged them with insatiable lust. Women themselves and their Introduction to the Series xxi.
Página xxii
... virtue, far more impressive than, say, the avoidance of idleness or greed. Monasticism, the cultural institution that dominated medieval Europe for centuries, was grounded in the renunci- ation of the flesh. The Catholic reform of the ...
... virtue, far more impressive than, say, the avoidance of idleness or greed. Monasticism, the cultural institution that dominated medieval Europe for centuries, was grounded in the renunci- ation of the flesh. The Catholic reform of the ...
Contenido
Introduction to María de San José Salazar 1548 1603 | 1 |
A Note on the Translation | 27 |
Book for the Hour of Recreation | 33 |
First Recreation | 35 |
Second Recreation | 42 |
Third Recreation | 61 |
Fourth Recreation | 66 |
Fifth Recreation | 78 |
Sixth Recreation | 82 |
Seventh Recreation | 87 |
Eighth Recreation | 100 |
Ninth Recreation | 135 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 165 |
Index | 169 |
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