Embodying the Sacred: Women Mystics in Seventeenth Century Lima

Van Deusen's subjects are well known women such as Saint Rosa of Lima and less known ones such as beatas, feigned and real, donadas [women dedicated to serve in convents], and a convent founder. The differing experiences of three specific women illustrate the boundaries of belief, the performan...

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Published in:The Catholic historical review 2018-09, Vol.104 (4), p.731-732
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