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2. From Women's Missions to Women's Convents 1528-1547

3. Sanctifying the City: Elite Anxiety, Urban Government, and Women's Institutions 1548-1582

4. "That They Not Be Lost": Three Recogimientos 1548-1582

5. "The Extreme Need for Monasteries": Three Convents, 1569-1580

6. "Persons to Whom Every Courtesy Is Owed": The Elite Imperative 1585-1601

7. Convents and Conflict: Jurisdiction and Urban Space

8. Material Conditions

9. Religious Careers

 

Escogidas Plantas: Nuns and Beatas in Mexico City, 1531-1601