The Inquisition of Francisca

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Inspired by a series of visions, Francisca de los Apóstoles (1539-after 1578) and her sister Isabella attempted in 1573 to organize a beaterio, a lay community

Women in the Inquisition

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The accounts, representing the experiences of girls and women from different classes and geographical regions, include the trials' vastly divergent outcomes ran

Between Exaltation and Infamy

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One day in 1599, in the Spanish village of Saria, seven-year-old Maria Angela Astorch fell ill and died after gorging herself on unripened almonds. Maria's sist

Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works

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During her lifetime, the gifted writer Marie le Jars de Gournay (1565-1645) was celebrated as one of the "seventy most famous women of all time" in Jean de la F

Epistle to Marguerite de Navarre and Preface to a Sermon by John Calvin

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Born to a noble family in Tournai, Marie Dentière (1495-1561) left her convent in the 1520s to work for religious reform. She married a former priest and with