Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire

Tells the remarkable story of a group of nuns who travelled halfway around the globe in the seventeenth century to establish the first female Franciscan convent in the Far East. Drawing from a manuscript from one of the nuns, other archival sources, and rare books, this study offers a fascinating view of travel, evangelization, and empire.

Calugarite navigand in Imperiul spaniol spune povestea remarcabila a unui grup de calugarite care au calatorit la jumatatea globului in secolul al XVII-lea pentru a infiinta prima manastire franciscana din Extremul Orient. In 1620 Sor Jeronima de la Asuncion (1556-1630) si a ei cofondatorii si-au parasit manastirea claustrata din Toledo, Spania, calatorind in Mexic pentru a se imbarca intr-un galeon din Manila in drum spre Filipine.