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AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND OTHER WRITINGS THE OTHER VOICE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE A Series Edited by Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil Jr. RECENT BOOKS IN THE SERIES MADELEINE DE L’AUBESPINE MARIE-MADELEINE PIOCHE DE LA Selected Poems and Translations: VERGNE, COMTESSE DE LAFAYETTE A Bilingual Edition Zayde: A Spanish Romance Edited and Translated by Anna Kłosowska Edited and Translated by Nicholas D. Paige LAURA BATTIFERRA DEGLI AMMANNATI HORTENSE MANCINI AND MARIA MANCINI Laura Battiferra and Her Literary Circle: Memoirs An Anthology Edited and Translated by Sarah Nelson Edited and Translated by Victoria Kirkham CHIARA MATRAINI PRINCESS ELISABETH OF BOHEMIA AND Selected Poetry and Prose: RENÉ DESCARTES A Bilingual Edition The Correspondence between Princess Edited and Translated by Elaine Maclachlan, Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes with an Introduction by Giovanna Rabitti Edited and Translated by Lisa Shapiro MADELEINE AND CATHERINE DES ROCHES MODERATA FONTE (MODESTA POZZO) From Mother and Daughter: Floridoro: A Chivalric Romance Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of Edited with an Introduction by Valeria Finucci, Les Dames de Roches Translated by Julia Kisacky, Annotated by Edited and Translated by Anne R. Larsen Valeria Finucci and Julia Kisacky MARGHERITA SARROCCHI MARÍA DE GUEVARA Scanderbeide: The Heroic Deeds of Warnings to the Kings and Advice on George Scanderbeg, King of Epirus Restoring Spain: A Bilingual Edition Edited and Translated by Rinaldina Russell Edited and Translated by Nieves Romero-Díaz KATHARINA SCHÜTZ ZELL JEANNE DE JUSSIE Church Mother: The Writings of a The Short Chronicle Protestant Reformer in Sixteenth-Century Edited and Translated by Carrie F. Klaus Germany Edited and Translated by Elsie McKee Ana de San Bartolomé AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND OTHER WRITINGS (cid:2) Edited and Translated by Darcy Donahue THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS Chicago & London Ana de San Bartolomé, 1549–1626 Darcy Donahue is associate professor of Spanish and women’s studies at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2008 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 2008 Printed in the United States of America 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 1 2 3 4 5 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14371-2 (cloth) ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14372-9 (paper) ISBN-10: 0-226-14371-6 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0-226-14372-4 (paper) The University of Chicago Press gratefully acknowledges the generous support of James E. Rabil, in memory of Scottie W. Rabil, toward the publication of this book. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publcation Data Anne of St. Bartholomew, Mother, 1550–1626. [Autobiografi a. English] Autobiography and other writings / Ana de San Bartolomé ; edited and translated by Darcy Donahue. p. cm. — (The other voice in early modern Europe) Includes index. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14371-2 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14372-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-226-14371-6 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-226-14372-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Anne of St. Bartholomew, Mother, 1550–1626. 2. Nuns—Belgium—Antwerp—Biography. I. Donahue, Darcy. II. Title. BX4705.A5695A3 2008 271.97102—dc22 [B] 2008007540 ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Series Editors’ Introduction ix Volume Editor’s Introduction 1 Volume Editor’s Bibliography 27 Note on Translation 33 Autobiography of Ana de San Bartolomé 37 Appendixes A. “An Account of the Foundation at Burgos” 115 B. “Prayer in Abandonment” (1607) 127 C. Spiritual Lectures (Pontoise, July 1605) 131 D. Chronology of the Life of Ana de San Bartolomé 141 Series Editors’ Bibliography 143 Index 165 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many people have been of assistance in the writing and publication of this book. First, I would like to acknowledge Miami University’s generous assistance in providing me with time for writing and funds to help defray publication costs. I would also like to express my appreciation of my students in both Spanish and women’s studies at Miami who have read and commented on excerpts of this translations and offered helpful reactions. Randy Petilos of the University of Chicago Press has provided excellent guidance in the logistics of editing and publishing, and Sharon Brinkman, also of the University of Chicago Press, did a wonderful job of copyedit- ing this translation of a four-hundred-year-old text. Finally, I would like to thank Al Rabil for his patience, knowledge, and valuable advice in the edit- ing of this book and for his role in the founding and continuation of this excellent series. Darcy Donahue vii THE OTHER VOICE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil Jr. THE OLD VOICE AND THE OTHER VOICE In western Europe and the United States, women are nearing equality in the professions, in business, and in politics. Most enjoy access to educa- tion, reproductive rights, and autonomy in fi nancial affairs. Issues vital to women are on the public agenda: equal pay, child care, domestic abuse, breast cancer research, and curricular revision with an eye to the inclusion of women. These recent achievements have their origins in things women (and some male supporters) said for the fi rst time about six hundred years ago. Theirs is the “other voice,” in contradistinction to the “fi rst voice,” the voice of the educated men who created Western culture. Coincident with a gen- eral reshaping of European culture in the period 1300–1700 (called the Renaissance or early modern period), questions of female equality and op- portunity were raised that still resound and are still unresolved. The other voice emerged against the backdrop of a three-thousand- year history of the derogation of women rooted in the civilizations related to Western culture: Hebrew, Greek, Roman, and Christian. Negative at- titudes toward women inherited from these traditions pervaded the intel- lectual, medical, legal, religious, and social systems that developed during the European Middle Ages. The following pages describe the traditional, overwhelmingly male views of women’s nature inherited by early modern Europeans and the new tradition that the “other voice” called into being to begin to challenge reign- ing assumptions. This review should serve as a framework for understanding the texts published in the series The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Introductions specifi c to each text and author follow this essay in all the volumes of the series. ix

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