The souls of purgatory : the spiritual diary of a seventeenth-century Afro-Peruvian mystic, Ursula de Jesús /
translated, edited, and with an introduction by Nancy E. van Deusen.
- Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press, 2004.
- x, 221 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Diálogos. .
- Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.) .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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