Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform

Bárbara Mujica is a Professor Emerita of Spanish literature at Georgetown University, where she taught early modern Spanish literature with a specialization in the Spanish mystics, women's writing, and Spanish theater. She was awarded a Presidential Medal, the School of Languages and Linguistics Service Medal, and the Dean's Medal for Excellence in Teaching. Throughout her career she published numerous scholarly books and she is founder and editor of Comedia Performance, a journal devoted to early modern Spanish theater. She is also the author of many works of fiction, including the novel Sister Teresa (Spanish edition: Hermana Teresa).

Winner of the GEMELA 2022 Award, Book Category! "Muchos elementos hacen de esta obra un trabajo de gran interés. El primero de ellos es que nos permite asomarnos a la historia de la Orden fundada por Teresa de Jesús, y a la misma historia de la Iglesia —en una época tan condicionante como es la contrarreformista— desde una perspectiva femenina, dejando hablar a las protagonistas. Más aún, acercándonos a la voz de su intimidad, recogiendo palabras privadas, como son las de la mayoría de las cartas."- María José Pérez González

• Introduction, Part I: Maria de San José, 1. The (Almost) Silenced Epistolary Pen of Maria de San José, 2. Drama in Seville, 3. On to Portugal, 4. Battles, 5. Trials, Part II: Ana de Jesús, 6. Paris and Beyond, 7. In the Low Countries, Part III: Ana de San Bartolomé, 8. The Other Ana, 9. Ana and the French, 10. The Antwerp Foundation, 11. Friends and Enemies., 12. The Ones Who Stayed Behind: The Letters of Catalina de Cristo to Ana de San Bartolomé, Conclusion, Index