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Mother Juana de la Cruz, 1481-1534: Visionary Sermons. Edited by Jessica A. Boon and Ronald E. Surtz. Translated by Ronald E. Surtz and Nora Weinerth. [The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Volume 494.] (Toronto: Iter Academic Press; Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 2016. Pp. xiii, 243. $39.95 paperback. ISBN 978-0-86698-549-9.)
This edited volume of selections from the visionary sermons of Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534) is an exciting addition to the scholarship on women, gender, and religion in early modern Europe.
Juana de la Cruz is a complex figure for scholars of female spirituality. We know her best through the collection of her "sermons"-meditations on biblical themes and events that she delivered in a semi-conscious state, first to her sisters at the third-order Franciscan convent in Cubas where she was the abbess, and later to more public gatherings that would...