Amazons, wives, nuns, and witches : women and the Catholic church in colonial Brazil, 1500-1822 / by Carole A. Myscofski.

The Roman Catholic Church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women's lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church's ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts in the Iberian honor code for women. Records left by Jesuit missionaries, Roman Cathol...

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Main Author: Myscofski, Carole A., 1954-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2013]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; bk. thirty-two.
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