Souls of Purgatory The Spiritual Diary of a Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic, Ursula de Jesus

Name: Souls of Purgatory The Spiritual Diary of a Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic, Ursula de Jesus
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ISBN: 9780826328281

ISBN-10: 0826328288

ISBN-13: 9780826328281

Edition: 2004

Authors: Nancy E. van Deusen, Nancy E. Van Deusen

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The life of the black religious servant Ursula de Jess (1604-1666) has remained one of the best-kept historical secrets of the New World. This English language translation of the diary she began in 1650 allows us to hear the voice of the former slave turned spiritualist. Born into slavery in Lima, Peru, Ursula entered a convent at the age of thirteen to serve a nun, and spent the next twenty-eight years as one of hundreds of slaves whose exhausting daily work afforded little time to contemplate religious matters. After surviving a potentially fatal accident, she chose a spiritual path, though remained a slave until one of the nuns purchased her freedom. Ursula began to see visions and…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 9/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 231
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.748

Nancy E. van Deusen is professor of history at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments



The World of Ursula de Jesus


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 Jesus


The Text


Notes



Translation of Ursula's Diary


Notes



Selections from Ursula's Diary


Notes


Glossary of Terms


Glossary of Important Individuals


Works Consulted


Index