A new companion to Hispanic mysticism /
edited by Hilaire Kallendorf.
- Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
- 1 online resource (xxii, 516 pages) : illustrations
- Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, v. 19 1871-6377 ; .
- Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 19. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-462) and index.
Prologue / Introduction : expanding the mystical canon / Religious autobiography / Traditions, life experiences and orientations in Portugese mysticism (1515-1630) / New world colonial Franciscan mystical practice / The Alumbrados : Dejamiento and its practitioners / Mother Juana de la Cruz : Marian visions and female preaching / John of the Cross, the difficult icon / Teresa of Jesus and Islam : the simile of the seven concentric castles of the soul / The mysticism of Saint Ignatius Loyola / Cecilia del Nacimiento, second-generation mystic of the Carmelite reform / The influences of Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Teresa of Ávila on the Colombian nun Jerónima Nava y Saavedra (1669-1727) / A new way of living? Luisa de Carvajal and the limits of mysticism / From saint to sinner : sixteenth-century perceptions of "La Monja de Lisboa" / The gardens of Teresa of Ávila / Home, sweet home : Teresa de Jesús, Mudéjar architecture, and the place of mysticism in early modern Spain / Interrupted mysticism in Cervantes's Persiles / Suspensio animi, or the interweaving of mysticism and artistic creation / "Through a glass darkly" : music and mysticism in Golden Age Spain / Colin Thompson -- Hilaire Kallendorf -- Fernando Durán López -- José Adriano de Freitas Carvalho -- Francisco Morales -- Alastair Hamilton -- Jessica A. Boon -- Jane Ackerman -- Luce López-Baralt -- Darcy Donahue -- Evelyn Toft -- Clara E. Herrera -- Glyn Redworth -- Freddy Domínguez -- Maryrica Ortiz Lottman -- María Mercedes Carrión -- Christina H. Lee -- Elena del Río Parra -- Tess Knighton.
The a oecanona of Hispanic mysticism is expanding. No longer is our picture of this special brand of early modern devotional practice limited to a handful of venerable saints. Instead, we recognize a wide range of a oemarginala figures as practitioners of mysticism, broadly defined. Neither do we limit the study of mysticism necessarily to the Christian religion, nor even to the realm of literature. Representations of mysticism are also found in the visual, plastic and musical arts. The terminology and theoretical framework of mysticism permeate early modern Hispanic cultures. Paradoxically, b.