 | Related Lives: Confessors and Their Female Penitents, 1450–1750 Subjects: Confession -- Catholic Church -- History; Monastic and religious life of women -- History; Confessors -- History; Spiritual directors -- History; Penitents -- History; Christian hagiography -- History; In early modern Catholic Europe and its colonies priests frequently developed close relationships with pious women, serving as their spiritual directors during their lives, and their biographers after their deaths. In this richly illustrated book... Jodi Bilinkoff is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is the author of The Avila of St. Teresa , also from Cornell, and coeditor of Colonial Saints: Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500-1800 . |
