Sarah E Owens
Biographic Data
| ID | 210650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah E Owens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah E |
| FAMILY NAME | Owens |
| SIGNATURE | OWENS S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Charleston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Early modern Iberian religious women and pilgrimage
The importance of religious women helping pilgrims has often been overlooked by scholars. This article focuses on how the cult of female saints, holy women, and nuns helped travelers both spiritually and physically with their journeys not only on the Iberian Peninsula, but across the Americas, and on to the farthest outposts of Asia. Some of these women created works of art related to the Virgen Peregrina while others worked as nurses in pilgrim …
Crossing Mexico (1620–1621)
In 1620, almost a hundred years after the Virgin of Guadalupe is said to have appeared to Juan Diego on the Hill of Tepeyac, a small group of Spanish nuns paid a visit to the chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe. Like many others before and after them they stopped at the shrine on their way to Mexico City. The Franciscan nuns were traveling from Toledo to Manila and were about to cross Mexico to board the yearly Manila Galleon at the port of…
The Cloister as Therapeutic Space
The Cloister as Therapeutic Space:Breast Cancer Narratives in the Early Modern World Sarah E. Owens (bio) Madre Estefanía's suffering began in silence. While she lay in her bunk battling seasickness, suffocating heat, and bed sores, she also brooded over the lump in her breast. She probably knew from the beginning that this was not a good sign. She might have already witnessed other nuns from her home convent in Madrid succumb to this terminal il…
Food, Fasting, and Itinerant Nuns
Spanish nuns who traveled to Mexico and Peru during the 17th and 18th centuries brought with them their pre-conceived notions on food and fasting. They firmly believed that they could keep up their prescribed regimen of fasting according to the strict Capuchin Rule. Their own descriptions of their travels, however, prove the contrary. Journeys that took them across the arid plains of the Iberian Peninsula, the high seas of the Atlantic Ocean and …
Crossing Mexico (1620–1621)
In 1620, almost a hundred years after the Virgin of Guadalupe is said to have appeared to Juan Diego on the Hill of Tepeyac, a small group of Spanish nuns paid a visit to the chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe. Like many others before and after them they stopped at the shrine on their way to Mexico City. The Franciscan nuns were traveling from Toledo to Manila and were about to cross Mexico to board the yearly Manila Galleon at the port of…
Food, Fasting, and Itinerant Nuns
Spanish nuns who traveled to Mexico and Peru during the 17th and 18th centuries brought with them their pre-conceived notions on food and fasting. They firmly believed that they could keep up their prescribed regimen of fasting according to the strict Capuchin Rule. Their own descriptions of their travels, however, prove the contrary. Journeys that took them across the arid plains of the Iberian Peninsula, the high seas of the Atlantic Ocean and …
The Cloister as Therapeutic Space
The Cloister as Therapeutic Space:Breast Cancer Narratives in the Early Modern World Sarah E. Owens (bio) Madre Estefanía's suffering began in silence. While she lay in her bunk battling seasickness, suffocating heat, and bed sores, she also brooded over the lump in her breast. She probably knew from the beginning that this was not a good sign. She might have already witnessed other nuns from her home convent in Madrid succumb to this terminal il…
Crossing Mexico (1620–1621)
In 1620, almost a hundred years after the Virgin of Guadalupe is said to have appeared to Juan Diego on the Hill of Tepeyac, a small group of Spanish nuns paid a visit to the chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe. Like many others before and after them they stopped at the shrine on their way to Mexico City. The Franciscan nuns were traveling from Toledo to Manila and were about to cross Mexico to board the yearly Manila Galleon at the port of…
Early modern Iberian religious women and pilgrimage
The importance of religious women helping pilgrims has often been overlooked by scholars. This article focuses on how the cult of female saints, holy women, and nuns helped travelers both spiritually and physically with their journeys not only on the Iberian Peninsula, but across the Americas, and on to the farthest outposts of Asia. Some of these women created works of art related to the Virgen Peregrina while others worked as nurses in pilgrim …
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