How Long to Read Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches

How Long Does it Take to Read Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches by Carole A. Myscofski

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women’s lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church’s ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts in the Iberian honor code for women. Records left by Jesuit missionaries, Roman Catholic church officials, and Portuguese Inquisitors make clear that women’s daily lives and their opportunities for marriage, education, and religious practice were sharply circumscribed throughout the colonial period. Yet these same documents also provide evocative glimpses of the religious beliefs and practices that were especially cherished or independently developed by women for their own use, constituting a separate world for wives, mothers, concubines, nuns, and witches. Drawing on extensive original research in primary manuscript and printed sources from Brazilian libraries and archives, as well as secondary Brazilian historical works, Carole Myscofski proposes to write Brazilian women back into history, to understand how they lived their lives within the society created by the Portuguese imperial government and Luso-Catholic ecclesiastical institutions. Myscofski offers detailed explorations of the Catholic colonial views of the ideal woman, the patterns in women’s education, the religious views on marriage and sexuality, the history of women’s convents and retreat houses, and the development of magical practices among women in that era. One of the few wide-ranging histories of women in colonial Latin America, this book makes a crucial contribution to our knowledge of the early modern Atlantic World.

How long is Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches?

Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches by Carole A. Myscofski is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches aloud.

What Reading Level is Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches?

Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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