Neither Saints Nor Sinners: Writing the Lives of Women in Spanish America

Author	Kathleen Ann Myers
Format	Softcover
ISBN	9780195157239
Publication Date	17/05/2009
Publisher	USA Oxford University Press
Manufacturer	Oxford University Press

This book is a collection of autobiographical texts written by six women from Latin America during the 17th century. The texts were drawn from primary sources, including Inquisition and canonization records, confessional and mystic journals, and legal defenses and petitions.

This book brings together the portraits and autobiographical texts of six 17th-century Latin American women, drawing on primary sources that include Inquisition and canonization records, confessional and mystic journals, and legal defenses and petitions.