{"product_id":"the-guitar-of-god-gender-power-and-authority-in-the-visionary-world-of-mother-juana-de-la-cruz-1481-1534-hardcover","title":"The Guitar of God: Gender, Power, and Authority in the Visionary World of Mother Juana de la Cruz, 1481-1534 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRonald E. Surtz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil recently, Spanish literary historiography has virtually ignored hundreds of women who wrote between 1500 and 1700. Most of them wrote to record, defend, and disseminate their spiritual visions, for despite the general disempowerment of Spanish women, female visionaries enjoyed considerable authority. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book recovers and examines the visionary experiences of Mother Juana de la Cruz, the most famous of these women during her lifetime and for two centuries afterwards. Born of peasant stock, she became abbess of a Franciscan convent and a mystic who was visited not only by Cardinal Cisneros, but by Emperor Charles V himself. Ronald E. Surtz places Mother Juana's visions in the religious and social context of the age and discusses such pertinent biographical elements as the nun's own androgyny. His focus is on the questions of gender, power, and authority, so pertinent to our own age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guitar of God \u003c\/i\u003ewill be of particular interest to scholars and students of late medieval Spanish culture, religion, and history, and women's studies.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRonald E. Surtz is Professor in Spanish at Princeton University and the author of Writing Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain: The Mothers of Saint Teresa of Avila, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 29, 1990\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45774586839237,"sku":"9780812282252","price":145.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/xmdK2kwrN_9780812282252.webp?v=1770524599","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-guitar-of-god-gender-power-and-authority-in-the-visionary-world-of-mother-juana-de-la-cruz-1481-1534-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}