Lives of Women

Recovering voices long relegated to silence, The Lives of Women deciphers the responses of women to the culture of control in seventeenth-century Spain. In this new history of Inquisitional Spain, Lisa Vollendorf incorporates convent texts, Inquisition cases, biographies, and women''s literature to reveal a previously unrecognized boom in women''s writing between 1580 and 1700.

During this period, ...