Autobiography and other writings

196 Pages·2008·0.886 MB·English, Spanish

by  Mother Anne of St. Bartholomew, Donahue, Darcy, Mother Anne of St. Bartholomew

AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND OTHER WRITINGS
THE
OTHER VOICE
IN
EARLY MODERN
EUROPE
A Series Edited by Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil Jr.
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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
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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
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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.
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