Instrucción de novicias: Vidas del convento barroco para guiar tu presente – Plastic Books

Instrucción de novicias: Vidas del convento barroco para guiar tu presente

BLACKIE BOOKS
ANA GARRIGA, CARMEN URBITA
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Pages
288 pp.
Language
Spanish
Publisher
Blackie Books
Year
2026
ISBN
9791387748586
Dimensions
14.0 x 2.39 x 21.01 cm
Written by
Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita
A fascinating journey through the lives of Baroque nuns and what happened behind the convent doors. Doctors from Brown University (USA), this is the result of more than 15 years of research and historical enthusiasm for the Baroque period. By the creators of the phenomenon Las Hijas de Felipe, the podcast that is rewriting the Spanish Baroque from the perspective of women. Behind the walls of a convent, silence reigns, only interrupted by the murmur of prayers or the melismas of liturgical chants. Or so we usually imagine it, but the reality is different. In that space governed by women, the nuns of the 16th and 17th centuries developed a complex social network, which included work and creativity, fashion and fame, friendship and love, politics and economics, and they proposed innovative solutions to the pressures of worldly life. All of this would have remained secret to the general public if it were not for the exhaustive research and dissemination work carried out for more than ten years by Carmen Urbita and Ana Garriga, the creators of the podcast Las hijas de Felipe. Thanks to them—and the thousands of letters and treatises they have read—we have access to Teresa de Ávila’s advice for good economic governance, María de Jesús de Ágreda’s tricks for being in several places at once, the boldness of Ana de Jesús and Beatriz de la Concepción to sustain a love against all odds, or the rage of sor Juana Inés de la Cruz to free herself, centuries before Me Too, from the harassment of a confessor. We can peek into that hidden world: a space created by women and for women, with different ways of loving, caring, organizing, creating, and living together. And, above all, we can confirm that EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS TO US HAS ALREADY HAPPENED TO A BAROQUE NUN.
Title
Instrucción de novicias: Vidas del convento barroco para guiar tu presente
Author
Ana Garriga,Carmen Urbita
Publisher
Blackie Books
Year
2026
Language
Español
Pages
288 pp.
ISBN
9791387748586
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