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What is our proposal?

This project aims to analyze the first model of female sanctity during the Counter-Reformation. Teresa, canonized in 1622, has traditionally dominated the study of this period and has been assumed to be the main model of female sanctity proposed after Trent. However, sixteenth-century models of female sanctity were not monolithic, […]

What texts are we editing?

The collected lives appeared in manuscripts of the 15th-16th centuries and handwritten and printed chronicles of religious orders in 17th century Castile as well as in conventual books or compendiums containing lives of saints (flos sanctorum). Thus, this project recovers several texts that have never been printed and most that […]

Why is our project relevant?

The recognition of a primary model of female sanctity before St. Teresa provides a new understanding of the Counter-Reformation. Historians and philologists have only recently vindicated the role of the spiritual leadership of female living saints and the invisibility of this cultural phenomenon has begun to be corrected. However, this […]

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