The Answer/La Respuesta

Index

A Abigail, 31, 77, 125 Abraham, 55, 115, 225 Acts, Book of, 108, 141 “Actualidad del sorjuanismo: 1994–1999” (Bénassy-Berling), xiv–xv Africans, 3, 144 agency, women’s, xi, xii; as participation in creation of culture, 31, 36, 127, 139, 152 Aguiar y Seijas, Francisco (archbishop of Mexico), xiii, xiv, 5, 13, 29n, 109, 112, 122, 139 Albertus Magnus, 39, 106, 107 Alencastre (Lancaster), María Guadalupe de (Duchess of Aveyro), 79, 129–30, 136 allegory, medieval, xvii Ambrose, Saint, 95, 99, 138, 141–42 Anna (prophet), 120 Answer to Sor Filotea de la Cruz, The (La respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz): as fundamental work in Western feminism, vii, x, xvii; issues at stake in, 25–31; multiplicity of meanings in, 19–21; narrative modes of, 21–23; rhetorical forms of, 23–25; as self-defense in conflict with church hierarchy, 13, 27; structure of, 19; womancentered vision in, 31–37 Anthony, Saint, 118 Antigua, María de la, 91, 138 Antonio de Nebrija, Elio, 136 Apelles (painter for Alexander the Great), 229 Aratus, 95, 141 Arce, Dr. Juan Díaz de, 34, 81, 83, 93, 130, 132, 139 archbishop of Mexico. See Aguiar y Seijas, Francisco Arenal, Electa, xixn, 16n, 17n, 33n, 108, 114 architecture, study of, 55 Arete, 79, 126 Aristotle, 24, 35, 75, 83, 107, 123, 124, 141 art, study of, 55 Asbaje, Pedro Manuel de, 2–3 asceticism: SJ’s retreat into, 14, 30–31 Aspasia Miletia, 79, 127 astronomy, study of, 18, 31, 55, 115, 128 “Athenagoric Letter”. See “Letter Worthy of Athena” Augustine, Saint, xiii, 4n, 83, 91, 101, 118, 138, 142 Aulus Gellius, 69, 121 autobiography: use of term, 19n Index 232 Index 233 Auto-defensa espiritual. See Letter to her confessor Aveyro, Duchess of. See Alencastre (Lancaster), María Guadalupe de B Ballad in Variant Meter (Romance decasílabo), viii, 152–53, 202–5 Ballad: Prologue to the Reader of these Poems (Romance: Prólogo al lector), viii, 145–46, 154–57 Barca, Calderón de la, xiii, 15, 112, 229n Barnstone, Willis, 127 Bénassy-Berling, Marie-Cécile, xiv–xv Bible. See Douay-Rheims; New Testament; Old Testament; specific books of binary oppositions: SJ’s understanding of limits of, 28 birthdate, of SJ, 4 Bishop of Puebla. See Fernández de Santa Cruz, Manuel Blessilla, 79, 115, 128 Boccaccio, Giovanni, 124, 125, 126, 129 Boethius, 229 Bonaventure, Saint, 95, 141 Borges, Jorge Luis, 148 Bradstreet, Anne, 2n, 123 Brigid, 91, 137–38 C Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, xiii, 15, 112, 229n Calleja, Diego, xvi, 3–4, 10, 133, 150n Campaspe (concubine of Alexander the Great), 228, 229 Carmelite order, 6, 117, 136 Carols (villancicos), viii, xi, xv, 14, 17, 110, 128, 145, 149–51, 168–89 Carreto, Leonor. See Mancera, Marquise de Carta atenagórica. See “Letter Worthy of Athena” Carta de Monterrey (Monterrey letter). See Letter to her confessor Carta de Sor Filotea de la Cruz (Letter from Sor Filotea de la Cruz), 222–30 Cassiodorus, 95, 141 Castalian Inundation (Inundación Castálida), 8, 12 Catalina de Jesus, xiv Catherine of Alexandria, Saint, xv, 4, 17, 79, 128, 150–51, Carols for the Feast of, 178–89 Catherine of Siena, Saint, 119 Catholic Church: as “mother,” 25, 121, 129; SJ’s conflict with hierarchy over concept of religious womanhood, xvii–xviii, 8; SJ’s struggle with authority in Answer, 20; SJ’s theological writings and subsequent retreat from writing and study, 12–14; SJ’s writing of poetry and, 16, 95. See also convent; Inquisition Catholic Reformation, 33n Cazalla, Agustin, 83, 131 Cerone, Pietro, 115 Christina Alexandra (Queen of Sweden), 79, 129 Christine de Pizan, xvii, 124, 125, 126–27, 128–29 Chronicles, Book of, 125 church. See Catholic Church Cicero, 24, 127 class: and styles of language in SJ’s poetry, 144, 146; and women’s literary traditions in sixteenth- and seventeenthcentury convents, xviii classical antiquity: and SJ’s learning, xii, xiii, xviii, 1, 15 Communion (Eucharist), 7, 26n community: in convent, xi, xv, xvi, 6, 7, 47, 49, 51, 59, 101, 117; of all believers, 91 confession: act of in seventeenth century, 26n convent, 231; Council of Trent and edicts on operation of, 33n; entrance of SJ into, 4–6, 51; life of SJ in, xi, xiii–xiv, 6–7, 117; as refuge, 114; and women’s literary traditions in sixteenth- and seventeenthcentury , xviii, 3 Corinna, 127 Corinthians...