Lucas P. Depierre

Being an Island: From Presence to Meaning in the Treatises of Teresa de Cartagena

Abstract Teresa de Cartagena (ca. 1425 – after 1478) was a disabled nun who faced a tripartite predicament as an author: deafness, gender, and her lineage within a Jewish convert family in medieval Spain. Regrettably, scholarship has tended to encapsulate her in a three-walled bo...