Stephen Haliczer: 1 book
Between Exaltation and Infamy
Female Mystics in the Golden Age of Spain
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2002
One day in 1599, in the Spanish village of Saria, seven-year-old Maria Angela Astorch fell ill and died after gorging herself on unripened almonds. Maria's sister Isabel, a nun, came to view the body with her mother superior, an ecstatic mystic and visionary named Maria Angela Serafina. Overcome by...
