The Ascetic Spirituality of Juan de Ávila (1499-1569)

Roldán-Figueroa, Rady

doi:10.1163/ej.9789004192041.i-266

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“…They were also among the female disciples of John of Avila, confessor and spiritual director of noble families in the region of Andalusia. 30 Indeed, even though Ana Ponce de Leo´n eventually joined the ranks of the Order of Saint Clare, Roa was attracted to her remarkable piety as a laywomen of aristocratic background. He published his biography of Ana Ponce de Leo´n in 1604, shortly after her death in 1601.…”

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Martín de Roa, S.J. (1559–1637) and the Consolidation of Catholic Literary Culture in Spain

Roldán-Figueroa

2014

European History Quarterly

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The article traces the life and work of Martín de Roa, S.J. (1559–1637). It argues that he occupied an important place in the formation of seventeenth-century Catholic literary culture in Spain. 1 His literary production is discussed against the backdrop of Spanish religious literature of the period and is evaluated in connection to his institutional location as a member of the Society of Jesus. Inventories of private book collections as well as citations or quotations in the written works of learned authors are carefully examined to establish the circulation and appropriation of his writings. The article analyses how the Real Academia Española appropriated his writings for the Diccionario de la lengua castellana, published between 1726 and 1739. The article closes with a study of Roa’s Vida de Doña Ana Ponce de León, Condesa de Feria, y después monja en el Monasterio de santa Clara de Montilla (Córdoba 1604), which highlights his post-Tridentine construction of femininity and masculinity.

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Section: Martín De Roa As Author Of Religious Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%