Contents

pp.：  7 – 10

List of Contributors

pp.：  11 – 14

List of Figures

pp.：  15 – 16

Acknowledgements

pp.：  17 – 18

Prologue

pp.：  19 – 22

Introduction: Expanding the Mystical Canon

pp.：  23 – 34

Part One Larger Trends

pp.：  35 – 36

Religious Autobiography

pp.：  37 – 60

Traditions, Life Experiences and Orientations in Portuguese Mysticism (1515–1630

pp.：  61 – 92

New World Colonial Franciscan Mystical Practice

pp.：  93 – 124

The Alumbrados: Dejamiento and its Practitioners

pp.：  125 – 146

Part Two Specific Figures

pp.：  147 – 148

Mother Juana de la Cruz: Marian Visions and Female Preaching

pp.：  149 – 170

John of the Cross, the Difficult Icon

pp.：  171 – 196

Teresa of Jesus and Islam: The Simile of the Seven Concentric Castles of the Soul

pp.：  197 – 222

The Mysticism of Saint Ignatius Loyola

pp.：  223 – 252

Cecilia del Nacimiento, Second-Generation Mystic of the Carmelite Reform

pp.：  253 – 274

The Influences of Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Teresa of Ávila on the Colombian Nun Jerónima Nava y Saavedra (1669–1727)

pp.：  275 – 294

A New Way of Living? Luisa de Carvajal and the Limits of Mysticism

pp.：  295 – 318

From Saint to Sinner: Sixteenth-Century Perceptions of "La Monja de Lisboa"

pp.：  319 – 342

Part Three Interdisciplinary Applications

pp.：  343 – 344

The Gardens of Teresa of Ávila

pp.：  345 – 364

Home, Sweet Home: Teresa de Jesús, Mudéjar Architecture, and the Place of Mysticism in Early Modern Spain

pp.：  365 – 388

Interrupted Mysticism in Cervantes's Persiles

pp.：  389 – 412

Suspensio Animi, or the Interweaving of Mysticism and Artistic Creation

pp.：  413 – 432

"Through a Glass Darkly": Music and Mysticism in Golden Age Spain

pp.：  433 – 458

Select Bibliography

pp.：  459 – 484

Chapter Summaries

pp.：  485 – 492

Index

pp.：  493 – 538