Chowning, Margaret: Rebellious Nuns: The Troubled History of a Mexican Convent, 1752-1863.(Book review)
History: Review of New Books, June, 2006 by Lester, Rebecca J.
Chowning, Margaret Rebellious Nuns: The Troubled History of a Mexican Convent, 1752-1863 New York: Oxford University Press 296 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-19518221-9 Publication Date: November 2005
Rebellious Nuns is a gripping and informative academic exploration of a series of rather bizarre events in a Mexican convent between 1752 and 1863. The convent, La Purisima Concepcion, was founded by the teenage daughter of a wealthy landowning family to be the first female cloister in San Miguel el Grande and to be the town's crowning jewel, a testimony to the people's solid faith and dedication to proper Christian living. What transpired in the convent, however, was something altogether different. Infighting, secret alliances, mysterious afflictions, and political...
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