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Between Exaltation and Infamy: Female Mystics in the Golden Age of Spain
Between Exaltation and Infamy Female Mystics in the Golden Age of Spain
Author: Stephen Haliczer
One day in 1599, in the Spanish village of Saria, seven-year-old Maria Angela Astorch fell ill and died after gorging herself on unripened almonds. Maria's sister Isabel, a nun, came to view the body with her mother superior, an ecstatic mystic and visionary named Maria Angela Serafina. Overcome by the sight of the dead girl's innocent face, Ser...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195148510
ISBN-10: 0195148517
Publication Date: 8/29/2002
Pages: 349
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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