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University of Groningen Ancias/Anxiousness in Joana de Jesus (1617-1681) Serrado, Joana IMPORTANT NOTE: You are advised to consult the publisher's version (publisher's PDF) if you wish to cite from it. Please check the document version below. Document Version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Publication date: 2014 Link to publication in University of Groningen/UMCG research database Citation for published version (APA): Serrado, J. (2014). Ancias/Anxiousness in Joana de Jesus (1617-1681): Historical and philosophical approaches. [S.n.]. Copyright Other than for strictly personal use, it is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). The publication may also be distributed here under the terms of Article 25fa of the Dutch Copyright Act, indicated by the “Taverne” license. 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This thesis will be defended in public on Thursday, 11 December 2014 at 14:30 hours by Joana de Fátima Gonçalves Pita do Serrado born on 3 March 1979 in Coimbra, Portugal Supervisor Prof. M.P.A. de Baar Co-supervisor Dr. M. van Dijk Assessment committee: Prof. A.K.H. Berlis Prof. A.C. Montoya Prof. W.H. Slob 2 PhD Fellowship supported by the Portuguese Organization for Science and Tech- nology (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia): SFRH/ BD/ 27546/ 2006 Research done within QREN – POPH – Tipologia 4.1. –Advanced Formation Avançada, co-sponsored by the European Social Fund Portuguese national funds. 3 Joana Serrado CRS Christianity and History of Ideas Faculty of Theology University of Groningen ISBN: 978-90-367-7505-2 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................ 5 NOTES AND LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ............................................................................. 9 CHRONOLOGY ........................................................................................................................ 11 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................... 13 I. Joana de Jesus, the Portuguese Nun ............................................................................ 13 i.i Joana Freire de Albuquerque and Joana de Jesus ................................................ 14 i.ii Joana’s Contribution: Anxiousness .................................................................... 15 II. Embedding Joana de Jesus in Previous Scholarship............................................. 18 ii.i Religious Early Modern Women Writers in Portugal ........................................ 19 ii.i.i Inventorying ................................................................................................. 19 ii.i.ii Literary Approach ....................................................................................... 20 ii.i.iii Historical Approach ................................................................................... 21 ii.ii Mysticism: Recollection, Politicization, and the Delineation of Geographic Borders ................................................................................................. 22 ii.ii.i Recollection and the Politicization of Scholarship ..................................... 22 ii.ii.ii Southern vs. Northern Mysticism .............................................................. 25 ii.ii.iii Ecstatic Devotion and Female Mystics ..................................................... 27 ii.ii.iv Joana de Jesus and Portuguese Early Modern Mysticism ......................... 28 III. Theoretical Framework ............................................................................................... 28 iii.i The Historians ................................................................................................... 29 iii.ii The Philosophers .............................................................................................. 31 IV. Methodology: Appropriation or Poaching .............................................................. 33 V. Outline of the Thesis ....................................................................................................... 35 CHAPTER 1 – ENGENDERING JOANA’S LIFE ................................................................. 37 1.1. The Life of Joana, the Genre of Her Life ................................................................ 37 1.1.1 The Biography of Joana .................................................................................. 38 1.1.1.1 The Country ............................................................................................. 40 1.1.1.2 The Family ............................................................................................... 41 1.1.1.3 Her Confessors ........................................................................................ 42 1.1.1.4 Her Death ................................................................................................. 43 1.1.1.5 The Manuscript ........................................................................................ 43 1.1.2 Reception of Joana de Jesus’ Life and Work.................................................. 47 1.2. The Genre of Joana's Text .......................................................................................... 49 1.2.1 Vita, Life, and Spiritual (Auto)Biographies ................................................... 49 1.2.2 Autohagiographies and Autodidactism .......................................................... 52 1.3. Mystical Text, Mystical Subjects ............................................................................... 54 1.3.1 The Preface: Life as an Exemplum ................................................................. 54 1.3.2 Listening to and Hearing God ........................................................................ 57 5 1.3.3 Beyond Senses: Time, Age, and Sensing the Future ...................................... 61 1.4. Imitating Models ............................................................................................................ 69 1.4.1 Reading Teresa ............................................................................................... 69 1.4.2 The Book of Life ............................................................................................. 72 1.5. Writing the Self: Corpus, Body, and Subjectivity in Joana's Narrative ........ 77 1.5.1 Waking, Rebirth, Becoming ........................................................................... 79 1.5.2 Augustine and Conversion .............................................................................. 81 1.5.3 More than a Treatise: A Prayer ....................................................................... 84 1.6. Final Remarks on Engendering Joana's Life ........................................................ 87 CHAPTER 2 – RECOLLECTIONS IN JOANA DE JESUS: MEMORY, OBSERVANCE, AND REFUGE .............................................................................................. 89 2.1. Recollection as Memory ............................................................................................. 90 2.1.1 The Spanish Mystics of Recollection ............................................................. 90 2.1.2 Joana´s Recollection ....................................................................................... 94 2.1.2.1 Knowledge and Love ............................................................................... 96 2.1.2.2 Recollection and ‘Mystical Theology’ .................................................... 99 2.2. Recollection as Observance ................................................................................... 102 2.2.1 The Cistercians and the Reformational Movements ..................................... 103 2.3. Recollection as Refuge ............................................................................................. 107 2.3.1 The Recollects and the Infamous Women .................................................... 108 2.3.2 The Family Network ..................................................................................... 114 2.3.3 The ‘Professional’ Network .......................................................................... 118 2.4. Final Remarks on the Recollections of Joana de Jesus .................................. 123 CHAPTER 3 – SITUATIONS OF ANXIOUSNESS IN JOANA DE JESUS .................... 125 3.1. Anxiousness as a Theme......................................................................................... 126 3.1.1 The Latin Tradition of Anxietas