The Mystic of Tunja

An investigation of the autobiographical and mystical writings of an eighteenth-century Colombian nun. "A work of superb scholarship, theoretical mastery, and elegant style. This is a much-needed text in the fields of spiritual autobiography, women's studies, and colonial Latin American history". -- Nina M. Scott.

List of Illustrations

xi

(2)

Acknowledgments

xiii

(2)

List of Abbreviations

xv

(2)

Editorial Method

xvii

I Interested Readings

I

(16)

Madre Castillo's Texts in Spanish American Literary Criticism

7

(5)

Contemporary Readings

12

(5)

PART I A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

17

(46)

II The Genre of the Vida Espiritual

17

(46)

Subject, Agent, Heretic

20

(4)

Autobiography and Subjecthood

24

(5)

The Vida Espiritual

29

(25)

Male Writing: Unambiguous Assurance

54

(9)

PART II CONTEXTS

63

(66)

III Religious Women's Writing in Spain and Spanish America

63

(10)

IV Female Monasticism: A Life Unbecoming?

73

(28)

The Middle Ages: A History of Female Autonomy

74

(3)

The Counter-Reformation: Palimpsests

77

(2)

El Convento Real de Santa Clara desta ciudad de Tunja

79

(22)

V Madre Castillo in the Institution: An Ascension to Power

101

(28)

A Vow of Poverty

107

(4)

Convent Offices

111

(1)

A Family Base

112

(3)

Confessors

115

(2)

Elections and Administration

117

(12)

PART III THE TEXTS

129

(94)

VI Su vida: Spiritual Trials and Worldly Troubles

129

(20)

The Old Child, The Conscience-Ridden Child

132

(3)

A Spiritual Struggle in the Convent

135

(6)

The Cares of the World

141

(8)

VII Su vida: Holy Archetypes

149

(18)

The Hermit

151

(1)

The Mystic

152

(4)

Mary Magdalene: Sinful Flesh, Redemptive Flesh

156

(5)

The Martyr

161

(2)

A Question of Agency

163

(4)

VIII The Afectos espirituales: Mysticism of the Incarnate Word

167

(32)

The Word Made Flesh

172

(5)

Knowledge in the Ritual of the Psalms

177

(5)

Opening the Doors of the Hermeneutic Halls

182

(7)

Madre Castillo and Sixteenth-Century Mysticism

189

(4)

The Gendering of Figures of Authority

193

(2)

Voice and Subjectivity: Between the Vida and the Cuaderno

195

(4)

IX The Cuaderno de Enciso: A Theology of Humiliation and Its Mystic Rewards

199

(24)

A Treatise for the Soul

201

(4)

Personal Prose and a Rhetoric of Theological Oratory

205

(5)

Humiliation as the Path to Resurrection

210

(5)

A Mystic Sepulcher

215

(4)

Conclusions

219

(4)

Notes

223

(30)

Works Cited

253

(16)

Index

269

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