Books by Rosilie Hernandez

Immaculate Conceptions investigates the religious imagination - sacred truth communicated through contingent and contextually determined theological propositions - as deployed in early modern Spanish textual and visual representations of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception.

Offers fresh research on women's acquisition and practice of literacy, on conventual literacy, and on the cultural representations of women's literacy. This title explores the abundant writings by early modern women to disclose the extent of their participation in the culture of Spain and the New World.