The she-apostle : the extraordinary life and death of Luisa de Carvajal / Glyn Redworth
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #406508
ISBN: 0199533539
Physical description: x, 276 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents: Introduction: the last house in London -- A Carvajal and a Mendoza -- Blessed discipline -- Toledo Street -- 'Sweet manacles' -- New ways of living -- Generation of vipers -- The she-apostle -- The most extraordinary journey -- Treason and plot -- Carrots, capons, and plague -- Grand India -- Sovereign virgin -- Broken English -- Fashionable and modest -- Pears and The Last Supper -- Oran -- The siege of Spitalfields. Subjects: Carvajal y Mendoza, Luisa de 1566-1614; Catholic women Spain ; Biography; Catholic women authors England London ; Biography; Catholics Spain ; Biography; Catholics England London ; Biography.
Price: €18.00