A Wild Country Out in the Garden - The Spiritual Journals of a Colonial Mexican Nun by Kathleen A Myers and Amanda Powell
Madre Maria de San Jose (1656 - 1719)--mystic, chronicler, and co-founder of an Augustinian convent--inscribed her life story within the model of spiritual autobiography set by St. Augustine and Teresa of Avila, but at the same time included her individual story as a seventeenth-century woman of the landowning classes in New Spain. The resulting manuscript records in intimate detail her family life, convent surroundings, and social milieu; it introduces us to a combative and engaging person and gives us a rare and vivid glimpse of a complex society.
This hardcover book is in very good condition with slight imperfections to the dust jacket. Pages in very good condition.
ISBN 10: 0253335817 / ISBN 13: 9780253335814
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publishing Date: 1999
