Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Note on Translation 49
Vida of María Vela y Cueto 53
Letters of María Vela y Cueto 140
Appendix I: Chronology of the Life of María Vela y Cueto 167
Bibliography 171
Index 183
Susan Diane Laningham is associate professor of European history
at Tennessee Tech University.
Jane Tar is associate professor of Spanish at the University of St.
Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.
María Vela y Cueto was a controversial figure in
Counter-Reformation Spain. Some of her contemporaries regarded
the visions, voices, and strange maladies she received as
signs of divine favor; others suspected her of fraud or
even heresy. After her death, her account of her life and
spiritual experiences was lost to posterity until the twentieth
century. This volume allows English-readers to encounter
the sometimes infuriating, always fascinating, María Vela in
her own words. Susan Laningham’s insightful introduction and notes,
based on years of persistent scholarship, helpfully
locate Vela in historical and historiographical
context. Jane Tar’s careful and sensitive translation renders
the Spanish nun’s writing accessible to a modern audience.
This book will be of great interest to scholars and students
of religion, gender, and the body in post-Tridentine Catholic
culture.
Jodi Bilinkoff
Professor, Department of History, University of North Carolina at
Greensboro
"María Vela y Cueto was a controversial figure in
Counter-Reformation Spain. Some of her contemporaries regarded the
visions, voices, and strange maladies she received as signs of
divine favor; others suspected her of fraud or even heresy. After
her death, her account of her life and spiritual experiences was
lost to posterity until the twentieth century. This volume allows
English-readers to encounter the sometimes infuriating, always
fascinating, María Vela in her own words. Susan Laningham’s
insightful introduction and notes, based on years of persistent
scholarship, helpfully locate Vela in historical and
historiographical context. Jane Tar’s careful and sensitive
translation renders the Spanish nun’s writing accessible to a
modern audience. This book will be of great interest to scholars
and students of religion, gender, and the body in post-Tridentine
Catholic culture."
*Jodi Bilinkoff, University of North Carolina at Greensboro*
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