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.d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP ytisre vin U d ro fn a tS .8 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Leavitt-Alcántara, Brianna. Alone at the Altar : Single Women and Devotion in Guatemala, 1670-1870, Stanford University Press, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/colmex/detail.action?docID=5178036. Created from colmex on 2019-01-14 09:39:59. Alone at the Altar .d e v re se r sth g ir llA .sse rP ytisre vin U d ro fn a tS .8 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Leavitt-Alcántara, Brianna. Alone at the Altar : Single Women and Devotion in Guatemala, 1670-1870, Stanford University Press, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/colmex/detail.action?docID=5178036. Created from colmex on 2019-01-14 09:36:28. This page intentionally left blank .d e v re se r sth g ir llA .sse rP ytisre vin U d ro fn a tS .8 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Leavitt-Alcántara, Brianna. Alone at the Altar : Single Women and Devotion in Guatemala, 1670-1870, Stanford University Press, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/colmex/detail.action?docID=5178036. Created from colmex on 2019-01-14 09:36:28. Alone at the Altar Single Women and Devotion in Guatemala, 1670–1870 Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara ; .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP ytisre vin U d ro fn a tS .8 stanford university press 1 0 2 © stanford, california th g iryp o C Leavitt-Alcántara, Brianna. Alone at the Altar : Single Women and Devotion in Guatemala, 1670-1870, Stanford University Press, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/colmex/detail.action?docID=5178036. Created from colmex on 2019-01-14 09:36:28. Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2018 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Leavitt-Alcántara, Brianna, author. Title: Alone at the altar : single women and devotion in Guatemala, 1670–1870 / Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara. Description: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2017028675 (print) | lccn 2017030514 (ebook) | isbn 9781503604391 (electronic) | isbn 9781503603684 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: lcsh: Single women—Religious life—Guatemala—History. | Catholic .d e Church—Guatemala—History. | Guatemala—Religious life and customs. | vre se Guatemala—Church history. r sth Classification: lcc bx1438.3 (ebook) | lcc bx1438.3 .l43 2017 (print) | g ir llA ddc 282/.7281082—dc23 .sse lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017028675 rP ytisre Typeset by Newgen in 10/12 Sabon vin U d ro fn a tS .8 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Leavitt-Alcántara, Brianna. Alone at the Altar : Single Women and Devotion in Guatemala, 1670-1870, Stanford University Press, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/colmex/detail.action?docID=5178036. Created from colmex on 2019-01-14 09:36:28. For Salvador, Mateo, and Joaquín .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP ytisre vin U d ro fn a tS .8 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Leavitt-Alcántara, Brianna. Alone at the Altar : Single Women and Devotion in Guatemala, 1670-1870, Stanford University Press, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/colmex/detail.action?docID=5178036. Created from colmex on 2019-01-14 09:36:28. This page intentionally left blank .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP ytisre vin U d ro fn a tS .8 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Leavitt-Alcántara, Brianna. Alone at the Altar : Single Women and Devotion in Guatemala, 1670-1870, Stanford University Press, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/colmex/detail.action?docID=5178036. Created from colmex on 2019-01-14 09:36:28. Contents Tables, Maps, and Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 part i. spiritual capital: devotional networks and a religious renaissance 17 1. City of Women, City of God: Poor, Single, and Holy in Santiago de Guatemala 19 2. Unlikely Allies: Missionaries and Laywomen 41 3. Sex, Honor, and Devotion 72 .d e vre part ii. shifting foundations: reform, ser sth revolution, and spiritual renewal 99 g ir llA 4. To Educate and Evangelize: Laywomen, Clergy, .sse and Late Colonial Girls’ Schools 103 rP ytisre 5. The Controversial Ecstasy of Sor María Teresa Aycinena 134 vin 6. “With Knives Drawn”: Gender, Devotion, U dro and Politics After Independence 173 fn a tS .8 Epilogue 201 1 0 2 © th Glossary 207 g irypo Notes 209 C Bibliography 263 Index 283 Leavitt-Alcántara, Brianna. Alone at the Altar : Single Women and Devotion in Guatemala, 1670-1870, Stanford University Press, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/colmex/detail.action?docID=5178036. Created from colmex on 2019-01-14 09:36:28. This page intentionally left blank .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP ytisre vin U d ro fn a tS .8 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Leavitt-Alcántara, Brianna. Alone at the Altar : Single Women and Devotion in Guatemala, 1670-1870, Stanford University Press, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/colmex/detail.action?docID=5178036. Created from colmex on 2019-01-14 09:36:28. Tables, Maps, and Figures tables 1. Number of will-makers per sampled years and per 20-year period 11 2. Number of male and female will-makers per 20-year period 11 3. Number of elite and non-elite female will- makers per 20-year period 14 maps 1.1. Map of colonial borders of the audiencia .d or Kingdom of Guatemala 23 e vre se 1.3. Map of Santiago de Guatemala, ca. 1770 25 r sth g ir llA .sse figures rP ytisrevin 1.2. Alonst oCnaiboa Rllearmosír (eGz,u Cataetmheadlara, l1 o6f7 8Sa) nt2ia4go de U dro 1.4. Frontispiece, Antonio Siria and José Toribio Medina, Vida fn atS de doña Ana Guerra de Jesús, escrita por el p. Antonio de Siria, .81 y por encargo del gobierno de El Salvador reimpresa a plana 0 2 © y renglón, precedida de un breve prólogo, por J.T. Medina th giryp (Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Universitaria, 1925 [1716]) 28 o C Leavitt-Alcántara, Brianna. Alone at the Altar : Single Women and Devotion in Guatemala, 1670-1870, Stanford University Press, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/colmex/detail.action?docID=5178036. Created from colmex on 2019-01-14 09:36:28.

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