Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: mujica barbara

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  • I AM VENUS
    BÁRBARA MUJICA
    This fictional account of the seventeenth-century Spanish painter's life is "a very enjoyable read . . . A portrait of Velázquez and a meditation on love" ( Washington Independent Review of Books).   Narrated by the mysterious model who posed for Rokeby Venus, Diego Velázquez's only surviving female nude, I Am Venus is the riveting account of a great artist's rise to prominence...

    $249.00

  • SISTER TERESA
    BÁRBARA MUJICA
    "This brilliant fictional biography of Saint Teresa of Ávila breathes new life into a sacred subject" ( Booklist).   She is Saint Teresa—known as a mystic, reformer, and founder of convents, and the author of numerous texts that introduced her radical religious ideas and practices to a society suffering through the repressive throes of the Spanish Inquisition. In Bárbara Mujica...

    $251.00

  • WOMEN RELIGIOUS AND EPISTOLARY EXCHANGE IN THE CARMELITE REFORM
    BÁRBARA MUJICA
    The sixteenth century was a period of crisis in the Catholic Church. Monastic reorganization was a major issue, and women were at the forefront of charting new directions in convent policy. The story of the Carmelite Reform has been told before, but never from the perspective of the women on the front lines. Nearly all accounts of the movement focus on Teresa de Avila, (1515-15...

    $1,240.00

  • TERESA DE AVILA, LETTERED WOMAN
    BARBARA MUJICA
    In 1562, Teresa de Avila founded the Discalced Carmelites and launched a reform movement that would pit her against the Church hierarchy and the male officials of her own religious order. This new spirituality, which stressed interiority and a personal relationship with God, was considered dangerous and subversive. It provoked the suspicion of the Inquisition and the wrath of u...

    $357.97

  • AIRES DE CAMBIO
    MUJICA BARBARA
    Tras la dolorosa ruptura de un matrimonio de dieciocho amos, Liz Dewhurst se traslada con su hijo Alex a la pequeña granja de su familia en la costa este de Escocia, una región fértil y de asombrosa belleza natural. Pero los cambios se avecinan inexorablemente. La granja no puede mantenerse, las deudas aumentan y un grupo de inversores les hace una oferta muy interesante. Final...
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    $209.00