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| Campus | Bryn Mawr |
| Semester | Spring 2025 |
| Registration ID | SPANB220002 |
| Course Title | Writers, Witches, Heretics |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies |
| Instructor | Phipps,Kathryn |
| Times and Days | TTh 02:40pm-04:00pm
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| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 3006 This course examines the evolution of gendered otherness through the diverse stories of women tried by the Inquisition in Spain, New Spain, Peru, and the Spanish Pacific. Throughout the Early Modern world, the Spanish Inquisition tried women of every social class and racial background for myriad charges of heresy, sexual misconduct, and witchcraft. In this course, students will gain a familiarity with major historical, cultural, and philosophical currents that shaped the Early Modern world while gaining critical skills required to engage the intricate primary sources that contain the stories of women who as believers, practitioners, writers, and artists, challenged ecclesiastical and colonial order throughout the transition to modernity. Students will engage womens writings that address themes of spirituality, religion, and doctrine from enclosurefrom convents or imprisonment within the Inquisitions chambers. These writings include canonical authors and lesser-known authors such as Sor Juana and Santa Teresa of Ávila, Ursula de Jesús, María de Cazalla, and María de Jesús de Ágreda. Taught in Spanish.Prerequisite: panish 120 or SPAN 200-level course. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI), Inquiry into the Past (IP), Writing Attentive; Haverford: Humanities (HU) ( ) Enrollment Cap: 15. If course exceeds the enrollment cap, the lottery criteria will be Majors by class (seniors, then juniors, then sophomores), then Minors by class (seniors, then juniors, then sophomores). |
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