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The Medieval Church · c. 1480–1490
The Life of Christ
Vita Christi
Isabel de Villena · 1430–1490
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What it is
A life of Christ written by an abbess for her nuns, giving unusual prominence to the women of the gospels and to Mary's own perspective throughout.
Why it lasted
A rare medieval life of Christ told largely through women's eyes, and a monument of Catalan prose.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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