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Brides of Christ invites the modern reader to follow the histories of colonial Mexican nuns inside the cloisters where they pursued a religious vocation or sought shelter from the world. Lavrin provides a complete overview of conventual life, including the early signs of vocation, the decision to enter a convent, profession, spiritual guidelines and devotional practices, governance, ceremonials, relations with male authorities and confessors, living arrangements, servants, sickness, and death rituals. Individual chapters deal with issues such as sexuality and the challenges to chastity in the cloisters and the little-known subject of the nuns' own writings as expressions of their spirituality. The foundation of convents for indigenous women receives special attention, because such religious communities existed nowhere else in the Spanish empire.
"Offering a pioneering interpretation of the "crowned nun" portrait, this book explores how visual culture contributed to local identity formation in Mexico"--
En este libro diferentes autores analizan las manera en que el mexicano ha expresado plásticamente las ideas sobre la vida, la muerte y la transfiguración a lo largo de la historia
Contiene 17 artículos sobre el uso y la costumbre de la indumentaria humana, su estética y su necesidad biológica y social, también se mencionan temas de otras culturas como Egipto, Grecia y Roma, además de los pueblos marginados de los últimos tiempos
Se busca enriquecer las interpretaciones iconográficas conocidas del Paleolítico hasta las efigies marianas de la época novohispana, pasando por las deidas mexicanas.