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Comunidad Y Escritura En La Temprana Edad Moderna Española Teresa De Cartagena, María De Santo Domingo Y Teresa De Ávila (1420-1582), Borja Gama De Cossio

Doctoral Dissertations

My research focuses on the literary production of women in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. My dissertation studies the life and works of three religious women in their respective communities: Teresa de Cartagena, Sor María de Santo Domingo, and Santa Teresa de Ávila. I examine how these women interact with other members of their orders, thus creating symbolic, intellectual, and emotional communities. I argue that their contact with friends and enemies inside and outside of their order and the church displays a variety of empowerment strategies. To deploy these series of strategies, religious women fashioned images of themselves …