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A New Companion to Hispanic Mysticism Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition A series of handbooks and reference works on the intellectual and religious life of Europe, 500–1700 VOLUME 19 A New Companion to Hispanic Mysticism Edited by Hilaire Kallendorf LEIDEN • BOSTON 2010 Cover illustration: Confraternity painting (detail) of Saint Michael the Archangel and Souls (Igreja Sandim, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal) (Photo: María Gabriela Oliveira). Th is book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A new companion to Hispanic mysticism / edited by Hilaire Kallendorf. p. cm. — (Brill’s companions to the Christian tradition, ISSN 1871-6377 ; v. 19) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-18350-6 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Mysticism—Iberian Peninsula—History. 2. Iberian Peninsula—Church history. 3. Mysticism—Spain—Colonies—America—History. 4. Spain—Colonies—America— Church history. I. Kallendorf, Hilaire, 1974- II. Title. III. Series. BV5077.I18N48 2010 248.2’20917561—dc22 2010016132 ISSN 1871-6377 ISBN 978 90 04 18350 6 Copyright 2010 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, Th e Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to Th e Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands For my son Barrett, ensconced on my lap for most of this book’s editing process. Nursing him was a truly spiritual experience which taught me the mystical art of “being still”. CONTENTS List of Contributors ........................................................................... xi List of Figures ..................................................................................... xv Acknowledgements ............................................................................ xvii Prologue .............................................................................................. xix Colin Th ompson Introduction: Expanding the Mystical Canon .............................. 1 Hilaire Kallendorf PART ONE LARGER TRENDS Religious Autobiography .................................................................. 15 Fernando Durán López Traditions, Life Experiences and Orientations in Portuguese Mysticism (1515–1630) ................................................................ 39 José Adriano de Freitas Carvalho New World Colonial Franciscan Mystical Practice ..................... 71 Francisco Morales Th e Alumbrados: Dejamiento and its Practitioners ..................... 103 Alastair Hamilton PART TWO SPECIFIC FIGURES Mother Juana de la Cruz: Marian Visions and Female Preaching ........................................................................................ 127 Jessica A. Boon viii contents John of the Cross, the Diffi cult Icon .............................................. 149 Jane Ackerman Teresa of Jesus and Islam: Th e Simile of the Seven Concentric Castles of the Soul .................................................... 175 Luce López-Baralt Th e Mysticism of Saint Ignatius Loyola ........................................ 201 Darcy Donahue Cecilia del Nacimiento, Second-Generation Mystic of the Carmelite Reform .......................................................................... 231 Evelyn Toft Th e Infl uences of Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Teresa of Ávila on the Colombian Nun Jerónima Nava y Saavedra (1669–1727) ..................................................... 253 Clara E. Herrera A New Way of Living? Luisa de Carvajal and the Limits of Mysticism ................................................................................... 273 Glyn Redworth From Saint to Sinner: Sixteenth-Century Perceptions of “La Monja de Lisboa” .............................................................. 297 Freddy Domínguez PART THREE INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS Th e Gardens of Teresa of Ávila ...................................................... 323 Maryrica Ortiz Lottman Home, Sweet Home: Teresa de Jesús, Mudéjar Architecture, and the Place of Mysticism in Early Modern Spain ............... 343 María Mercedes Carrión contents ix Interrupted Mysticism in Cervantes’s Persiles .............................. 367 Christina H. Lee Suspensio Animi, or the Interweaving of Mysticism and Artistic Creation ............................................................................ 391 Elena del Río Parra “Th rough a Glass Darkly”: Music and Mysticism in Golden Age Spain ......................................................................... 411 Tess Knighton Select Bibliography ............................................................................ 437 Chapter Summaries ........................................................................... 463 Index .................................................................................................... 471 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Jane Ackerman is an Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Tulsa. She has published articles on the Carmelite Order, European mysticism, John of the Cross, and Teresa of Ávila. She published Eli- jah, Prophet of Carmel in 2004 and in 1995 Th e Living Flame of Love, Versions A and B, a comparative translation and study of John’s trea- tise on mystical union. Jessica A. Boon is Assistant Professor of Church History at the Perkins School of Th eology, Southern Methodist University. She specializes in Spanish mysticism in the fi rst half of the 16th century, and recently published “Th e Agony of the Virgin: Th e Swoons and Crucifi xion of Mary in Sixteenth-Century Castilian Passion Treatises” in the Six- teenth Century Journal. María Mercedes Carrión is Professor of Spanish, Religion, and Wom- en’s Studies at Emory University. She specializes in the cultural and literary production of 16th- and 17th-century Spain, with a partic- ular focus on dramatic theory and performance, legal writings and practices, and architectural theory and history. She is the author of Arquitectura y cuerpo en la fi gura autorial de Teresa de Jesús (Barce- lona, 1994) and Subject Stages: Marriage, Th eatre, and the Law in Early Modern Spain (Toronto, 2010). José Adriano de Freitas Carvalho is Profesor Catedrático Emeritus at the University of Porto (Portugual), where he was Director of the Inter-University Center for the History of Spirituality (1982–2004). He specializes in the study of Spanish literature and the literature of spirituality in Portugal and Spain in the 16th–18th centuries, and also the literature of social behavior in the Iberian Peninsula during the same period. His most recent books are Poesia e hagiografi a (Porto, 2007) and Lectura espiritual en la Península Ibérica (siglos XVI–XVII) (Salamanca, 2007). Freddy Domínguez is a doctoral student in the Department of History at Princeton University. xii list of contributors Darcy Donahue is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She is the translator and editor of Ana de San Bartolomé, Autobiography and Other Writings (Chicago, 2008). She has published articles in Cervantes, Anales cer- vantinos, Estudios, and the Journal of Hispanic Philology. Fernando Durán López is Profesor Catedrático of Spanish Literature at the University of Cádiz. He specializes in Spanish autobiography, political literature, journalism, and Spanish intellectual life. He is the author of Catálogo comentado de la autobiografía española (siglos XVIII y XIX) (1997), José Vargas Ponce (1760–1821): ensayo de una bibliografía y crítica de sus obras (1997), José María Blanco White o la conciencia errante (2005), Vidas de sabios: el nacimiento de la auto- biografía moderna en España (1733–1848) (2005), and Un cielo abre- viado: introducción crítica a una historia de la autobiografía religiosa en España (2007). Alastair Hamilton, Professor Emeritus of the History of the Radical Reformation at the University of Amsterdam, is now the Arcadian Visiting Research Professor at the School of Advanced Study, London University, attached to the Warburg Institute. He has worked on vari- ous aspects of religious history in the 16th and 17th centuries as well as on relations between Europe and the Arab world. His publications on Spain include his edition of the Proceso de Rodrigo de Bivar (1539) (Madrid, 1979) and Heresy and Mysticism in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Th e Alumbrados (Cambridge, 1992). Clara E. Herrera is a lecturer in Spanish at Lake Forest College. She specializes in Colombian religious writers of the 17th century. She recently completed a dissertation on the Grenadine nuns Madre Fran- cisca Josefa del Castillo, Madre Jerónima Nava, and Hermana María de Jesús. Hilaire Kallendorf is an Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University. She specializes in religion and literature of the early modern period. Her books include Exorcism and Its Texts: Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain (Toronto, 2003) and Conscience on Stage: Th e Comedia as Casuistry in Early Modern Spain (Toronto, 2007). list of contributors