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Title The inquisition of Francisca : a sixteenth-century visionary on trial / Francisca de los Apóstoles ; edited and translated by Gillian T.W. Ahlgren.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 195 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Other voice in early modern Europe
Other voice in early modern Europe.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-190) and index.
Summary Inspired by a series of visions, Francisca de los Apóstoles (1539-after 1578) and her sister Isabella attempted in 1573 to organize a beaterio, a lay community of pious women devoted to the religious life, to offer prayers and penance for the reparation of human sin, especially those of corrupt clerics. But their efforts to minister to the poor of Toledo and to call for general ecclesiastical reform were met with resistance, first from local religious officials and, later, from the Spanish Inquisition. By early 1575, the Inquisitional tribunal in Toledo had received several statements denounci.
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Language Translated from the Spanish.
Subject Francisca, de los Apóstoles, 1539?- -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Francisca, de los Apóstoles, 1539?-
Genre/Form Trials, litigation, etc.
Subject Francisca, de los Apóstoles, 1539?-
Francisca, de los Apóstoles, né 1539? -- Procès, instances, etc.
Trials (Heresy) -- Spain -- Toledo.
Trials (Heresy)
Spain -- Toledo.
Inquisition -- Spain -- History -- Sources.
Inquisition.
Spain.
History.
Genre/Form Sources.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
Added Author Francisca, de los Apóstoles, 1539?-
Ahlgren, Gillian T. W., 1964-
Other Form: Print version: Inquisition of Francisca. 1st ed. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005 0226142221 9780226142227 (DLC) 2004022020 (OCoLC)56608177
ISBN 9780226142258 (electronic book)
0226142256 (electronic book)
9780226142227 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
0226142221 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
9780226142241 (paperback : alkaline paper)
0226142248 (paperback : alkaline paper)