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Book SynopsisOffers a rare glimpse into the intellectual and emotional life of an educated European woman at a particularly dangerous time in Spanish colonial history.
Trade ReviewFrances Levine provides a rare glimpse into the society of Spanish colonial New Mexico as seen through the eyes of Doña Teresa Aguilera y Roche, wife of Governor Bernardo López de Mendizábal. No other body of documentation reveals as much about the period before the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 as does Levine's examination of the couple's trial by the Inquisition. Levine deftly recounts Doña Teresa's passionate and poignant defense against her accusers. A rare example of the writings of a highly literate woman living in seventeenth-century Mexico,
Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition also makes an important contribution to scholarship on women in colonial Latin America."" - Rick Hendricks, New Mexico State Historian and coauthor of
The Spanish Missions of New Mexico: Before 1680""Frances Levine provides a comprehensive, coherent, and - above all - sympathetic account of the sufferings endured by Doña Teresa at the hands of the Inquisition, highlighting her spirited defense, written, as was most unusual for the time, in her own hand. Thoroughly informed and based on the best historical materials available, Levine's work dramatically illuminates a crucial period in the history of colonial New Mexico.""
Jerry R. Craddock, editor of
Zaldi´var and the Cattle of Ci´bola: Vicente de Zaldi´var's Report of His Expedition to the Buffalo Plains in 1598
