Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New World

Book Overview

Ana Domenge, who later founded the Dominican convent in Perpign?n, composed a written account of her spiritual intimacies with God while being held in terrible conditions in a secret prison in Barcelona. In?s of Herrera del Duque, a leather tanner's twelve-year-old daughter whose messianic prophesies captivated both children and adults, was burned at the stake along with many of her followers. Nine years after the death of Catarina de San Juan,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801859328
• ISBN13: 9780801859328
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"