Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru by Kathryn Burns

Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru

Kathryn Burns

320 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative slow-paced

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In Colonial Habits Kathryn Burns transforms our view of nuns as marginal recluses, making them central actors on the colonial stage. Beginning with the 1558 founding of South America’s first convent, Burns shows that nuns in Cuzco played a vital p...

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