Vocation and Enclosure in Colonial Nuns’ Spiritual Autobiographies

Renascence ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-172
Author(s):  
Teresa Hanckock-Parmer ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Spiritual Meaning ◽  
Redemptive Suffering ◽  
Spiritual Autobiographies ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Religious Meaning ◽  
Maria De San Jose

This article examines the discourse of enclosure utilized by Maria de San Jose (1656-1719, Puebla), Jeronima Nava y Saavedra (1669-1727, Bogota), and Francisca Josefa de Castillo (1671-1742, Tunja, Colombia) in their spiritual autobiographies. Despite dissimilar personal vocation narratives, these Hispanic nuns embraced enclosure as a tool of continuing spiritual advancement, both before and after actual profession of monastic vows. They portrayed the cloister simultaneously as connubial bedchamber and isolated hermitage, thus ascribing Baroque religious meaning to ancient anchoritic models through intersecting discourses of desert solitude, redemptive suffering, Eucharistic devotion, and nuptial mysticism. To attain ideal enclosure for self and others, these nuns advocated for reform in New World convents, which often reproduced worldly hierarchies, conflicts, and values. Enclosure, more than a symbolic vow or ecclesiastical mandate, constituted a formative practice that fostered correct action and attitude in nuns’ lives; these women conscientiously sought a cloistered life through which they cultivated holiness and created new spiritual meaning.

scholarly journals Una autobiografía religiosa fuera de la norma: Autonomía y racionalidad en El libro de Recreaciones de María de San José

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
María Celeste Martínez Calvo
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Spiritual Autobiographies ◽  
Maria De San Jose

RESUMEN: Las «autobiografías por mandato» fueron, durante muchos siglos, el único mol-de autorizado donde la mujer religiosa podía desarrollar sus inquietudes literarias. En este artículo, se analiza cómo María de San José (1548-1603) realiza una «autobiografía por mandato» rompiendo con el modelo de saturación emocional que suele caracterizar a este género literario. Para ello, se estudian las referencias a la oración mental en su Libro de las Recreaciones y se comparan con los de otras escritoras carmelitas.ABSTRACT: The spiritual autobiographies were, for many centuries, the authorized model where contemplative women made real his literary ideals. This article investigate how Maria de San José (1548-1603) write a text that breaks the standard of emotional saturation that usually shows this literary genre. To accomplish this objective, references to mental prayer in her Book of Recreations are analyzed and compared with those of other Carmelite women writers.

Análisis iconográfico de sellos postales alegóricos a la Beata Venezolana “Madre María de San José”.

2021 ◽  
pp. 60-71
Author(s):  
Eduardo Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
San Jose ◽  
Erwin Panofsky ◽  
Maria De San Jose

Las fuentes históricas no escritas, tales como las iconográficas, brindan la oportunidad de analizar hechos y personajes de relevancia en el transcurso del tiempo. En este sentido, la filatelia o afición por coleccionar y estudiar los sellos postales, constituye una ventana abierta para el análisis y enriquecimiento del conocimiento sobre diversos aspectos de las actividades humanas, entre ellas, los cuidados de la salud en el contexto de la Enfermería. Por lo tanto, el objetivo del presente estudio se fundamentó en describir mediante un análisis iconográfico, la presencia de valores relacionados con el cuidado de Enfermería, representados gráficamente en sellos postales alegóricos a la Beata “Madre María de San José”. La metodología empleada fue iconográfica-iconológica, teniendo como referente a Erwin Panofsky. La unidad de análisis estuvo constituida por las ilustraciones de tres sellos postales. En el análisis, los elementos simbólicos y códigos presentes en las ilustraciones, fueron fáciles de interpretar en el contexto sociohistórico. También, se evidencia la presencia de cuidados y valores relacionados con la enfermería.

The (Almost) Silenced Epistolary Pen of María de San José

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bárbara Mujica
Keyword(s):  
San Jose ◽  
Maria De San Jose

Teresa de Ávila had hoped that María de San José (1548–1603) would succeed her as foundress of convents and head of the Carmelite reform. However, María clashed with the Discalced hierarchy when the Provincial, Nicolás Doria, sought to modify the Constitutions of the order. She and Ana de Jesús appealed to the Pope in what came to be known as the “nuns’ revolt”, but, in the end, Doria won out. María was imprisoned and eventually exiled to a remote convent, where she soon died. María had received an excellent education as a child at the palace of Duchess Luisa de la Cerda, and she wrote many well-reasoned, legalistic letters defending her position.

Muslim Trade and City Growth Before the Nineteenth Century: Comparative Urbanization in Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Blaydes ◽  
Christopher Paik
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
New World ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Alternative Routes

AbstractScholars have long sought to understand when and why the Middle East fell behind Europe in its economic development. This article explores the importance of historical Muslim trade in explaining urban growth and decline in the run-up to the Industrial Revolution. The authors examine Eurasian urbanization patterns as a function of distance to Middle Eastern trade routes before and after 1500 CE – the turning point in European breakthroughs in seafaring, trade and exploration. The results suggest that proximity to historical Muslim trade routes was positively associated with urbanization in 1200 but not in 1800. These findings speak to why Middle Eastern and Central Asian cities – which had long benefited from their central location between Europe and Asia – declined as Europeans found alternative routes to the East and opened trade opportunities in the New World.

Drama in Seville

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bárbara Mujica
Keyword(s):  
San Jose ◽  
Maria De San Jose

At the urging of Gracián, Teresa de Ávila (de Jesús) founded a convent in Seville, naming María de San José its prioress. In so doing, Teresa disobeyed the orders of the Carmelite General, Juan Bautista Rubeo, who had only given her permission to found in Castile. Enraged, Rubeo convened a chapter in Piacenza at which Teresa was ordered to remain in one convent in Castile and make no further foundations. Felipe [Filippo] Sega, the papal Nuncio, took the side of those who opposed the Discalced expansion into Andalusia. In the meantime, María had to cope with a disgruntled nun who denounced her to the Inquisition, and an overzealous confessor named Garciálvarez, who subjected nuns to excessive penitential practices.

scholarly journals Gundala and Gatotkaca in the concept of modern Indonesian superheroes: Comparative analysis of the Indonesian and American superheroes

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Deswandito Dwi Saptanto ◽  
Maya Kurnia Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
New World ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Special Effects ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Marvel Cinematic Universe ◽  
Alter Ego ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Complete Concept

The superhero universe has always been an attraction in the world of film industry. The birth of superhuman ideas has made people increasingly interested in taking the storyline. This research is a literature study on the existence of a new world in Indonesian cinema that takes the theme of Indonesia's superhero universe competes against the universe of American superheroes. The purpose of this study is to compare Indonesian and American superhero films in order to understand the complete concept of depicting Indonesian superheroes in the process of switching from comics to films comparing with the same concepts in American superheroes. This study employed a descriptive qualitative method by comparing films from the Indonesian superhero universe namely Bumilangit Cinematic Universe and Jagad Satria Dewa Cinematic Universe compared to the American superhero universe namely Marvel Cinematic Universe and DC Cinematic Universe. The results obtained that there were some similarities in the process of character formation in each of the heroes that were created, this could be described with similarity in multiple personalities before and after becoming superheroes, costumes worn, storylines and special effects produced in the film. There were fundamental differences that were seen in the background of Indonesian culture that was different from the concept of American culture. Indonesian superheroes also highlighted Pencak Silat as the original identity and characteristics of Indonesia. This research concluded that a story with a superhero concept had the same story pattern such as a person with a superhero alter ego and deep with heroic storyline even though they were presented by different countries.

The Archive of Fear

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Zwarg
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
New World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Trauma Theory ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Saint Domingue ◽  
Before And After ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Haitian Revolution

Not about Haiti but about the haunting power of its revolution, The Archive of Fear explores the traumatic force field that continued to inflect U.S. discussions of slavery and abolition both before and after the Civil War, sometimes with surprising intensity and endurance. Focusing on U.S. slavery and its aftermath in the nineteenth century, it challenges the long-assumed distinction between psychological and cultural-historical theories of trauma, discovering a virtual dialogue between three central U.S. writers and Sigmund Freud concerning the traumatic response of slavery’s perpetrators. To do so, it shows how trauma theory before Freud first involves a return to an overlap between crisis, insurrection, and mesmerism found in the work of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Mesmer’s “crisis state” has long been read as the precursor to hypnosis, the tool Freud famously rejected when he created psychoanalysis. But the story of what was lost to trauma theory when Freud adopted the “talk cure” can be told through cultural disruptions of New World slavery, especially after mesmerism arrived in Saint Domingue where its implication in the Haitian revolution in both reality and fantasy had an impact on the history of emancipation in the United States. The Archive of Fear argues that a strain of trauma theory and practice comes alive in the temporal and spatial disruptions of New World slavery—and that key elements of that theory still inform the infrastructure of race relations today. Reviewing trauma theory through its pre-Freudian roots—especially as the alarm of slavery’s perpetrators relates to the temporal patterns of Mesmer’s “crisis state”—widens our sense of the affective atmospheres through which emancipation had to be sought. And it illuminates the fugitive approach Douglass, Stowe, and Du Bois devised to confront and defuse the archive of fear still blocking full emancipation today.

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