Pedro de Alcocer’s Hystoria o descripcion de la Imperial cibdad de Toledo (1554) as a source for the tridentine hagiographycal anthologies written in spanish
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This article propose a influential network’s capture in the anthologies written after the Council of Trent in the basis of Pedro de Alcocer’s Hystoria o descripcion de la Imperial cibdad de Toledo (printed in 1554) as the principal source of female lives’ formation of women (born before Teresa de Jesus) with reputation for holiness in late medieval Castile or early 16th century. Specifically, those of María García, María de Toledo, Beatriz de Silva and Guiomar de Meneses.
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