Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822

Authors

Carole Myscofski, Illinois Wesleyan UniversityFollow

Publication Date

November 2013

Abstract

Writing Brazilian women back into history, this book presents the first comprehensive study in English of how women experienced and understood their lives within the society created by the Portuguese imperial government and the colonial era Roman Catholic Church.

Disciplines

Religion

Recommended Citation

Myscofski, Carole, "Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822" (2013). Scholarship. 16.
https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/religion_scholarship/16