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Escogidas plantas: nuns and beatas in Mexico City, 1531-1601
Jacqueline Holler
Year: 2008, c2001.
Publisher:  Columbia University Press. 
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table of contents
Title Page
Copyright and Permissions
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note on Orthography, Transcription, and Translation
1: Introduction
[Intro]
Sources
The Historiography of Women's Monasticism in Europe and Latin America
2: From Women's Missions to Women's Convents 1528-1547
[Intro]
Background to the Colegios de Niñas Indias
The Maestras and their Colegios
The Colegios and Local Government
The Establishment of La Concepcíon
The Legacy of the Colegios de Niñas Indias
3: Sanctifying the City: Elite Anxiety, Urban Government, and Women's Institutions 1548-1582
[Intro]
The Sixteenth-Century City
Institutions for Women and the Urban Scene
4: "That They Not Be Lost": Three Recogimientos 1548-1582
The Colegio de Niñas Mestizas
Jesús de la Penitencia
Santa Mónica
5: "The Extreme Need for Monasteries": Three Convents, 1569-1580
Santa Clara
Regina Coeli
Jesús María
6: "Persons to Whom Every Courtesy Is Owed": The Elite Imperative 1585-1601
7: Convents and Conflict: Jurisdiction and Urban Space
[Intro]
Jurisdiction over Women's Convents
Convents and Urban Space
Urban Space and the Conquered City
8: Material Conditions
[Intro]
Cloistering
Finances
Work
9: Religious Careers
[Intro]
Quest for Autonomy: The Founding Family of Santa Clara de México
Life in the Convent Community
Life in the Neighborhood: Three Beatas
Epilogue
Archive: Chapter Appendices
Chapter 2
Appendix 1: AGI, México 2555. A SM de los obispos de México y Oaxaca. Undated (c. 1535)
Appendix 2: AGI, México 280. A SM de la abadesa y conbento de mexico. 15 February 1552.
Appendix 3: AGI, México 339. A SM del cabildo de la yglesia de Mexico. 12 January 1552.
Chapter 3
Appendix 1: AGI, México 280. A SM de fray nicolas de witte [?]. 8 January 1552.
Chapter 4
Appendix 1: AGI, México 280. De fray joan cruzate prior de san agustin de mexico. 12 June 1549.
Chapter 5
Appendix 1: AGI, México 2557, Exp. 3. A SM del cabildo secular de México. 30 March 1569.
Appendix 2: AGI, México 286. De officio en la audi[enci]a rreal de mex[i]co, a pedimi[ent]o de gregorio de pesquera y p[edr]o thomas primeros fundadores del monesterio de monjas de mexico llamado Jesus maria para donçellas pobres hijas y nietas de conquistadores. 5 October 1581.
Chapter 6
Appendix 1: AGI, México 291. A SM del mono de san lorenzo. 12 December 1598.
Appendix 2: AGN, Bienes Nacionales 78, Exp. 63. Fray franco moreno. 26 January 1601.
Appendix 3: AGI. México 270. Información doña María de Velasco.
Chapter 7
Appendix 1: AGI, México 280. El monasterio de la orden de la concepcion de mexco. 19 August 1570
Appendix 2: AGI, México 282. Al Illmo señor don Juan ovando presidente del consejo real de las yndias. Fray Geronimo Mendieta dize lo mal que parecio... 8 September 1574.
Chapter 8
Appendix 1: AGI, México 285. Fray Juan de Leon a SM. 9 April 1581.
Text in Translation
[Intro]
Chapter 2: Translations
Chapter 3: Translations
Chapter 4: Translations
Chapter 5: Translations
Chapter 6: Translations
Chapter 7: Translations
Chapter 8: Translations
Chapter 9: Translations
Notes
1: Introduction
[Intro] and Sources
The Historiography of Women's Monasticism in Europe and Latin America
2: From Women's Missions to Women's Convents 1528-1547
3: Sanctifying the City: Elite Anxiety, Urban Government, and Women's Institutions 1548-1582
4: "That They Not Be Lost": Three Recogimientos 1548-1582
5: "The Extreme Need for Monasteries": Three Convents, 1569-1580
6: "Persons to Whom Every Courtesy Is Owed": The Elite Imperative 1585-1601
7: Convents and Conflict: Jurisdiction and Urban Space
8: Material Conditions
9: Religious Careers
Epilogue
Glossary
Bibliography
Primary Sources: Archival/Unpublished
Primary Sources: Published
Secondary Sources
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Title: Escogidas plantas : nuns and beatas in Mexico City, 1531-1601 by Jacqueline Holler.
Author: Holler, Jacqueline Zuzann, 1964-
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Source Version: Escogidas plantas : nuns and beatas in Mexico City, 1531-1601 by Jacqueline Holler. 
Holler, Jacqueline Zuzann, 1964-
New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 2008, c2001.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.99009
Subject Headings: • Convents -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History
• Women in Christianity
• Women -- Religious life -- Mexico -- Mexico City
• Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Mexico -- Mexico City
• Mexico City (Mexico) -- Religious life and customs
• Mexico City (Mexico) -- Social life and customs
• Mexico City (Mexico) -- History -- 16th century
• Mexico City (Mexico) -- Church history
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