Escogidas Plantas ― Nuns And Beatas in Mexico City, 1531-1601

With this book, Jacqueline Holler demonstrates how early members of religious orders in Mexico were conceived of as an extension of the process of conversion and spiritual conquest. Over time, however, the creation of convents became a means of reaffirming the European nature of the colony, at least for its upper classes. Holler's work is based on archival research in both Mexico and Spain.

Jacqueline Holler received her Ph.D. in History from Emory University in 1998. From 1998 to 2000, she was Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. She has published several essays relating to women and the church in early colonial Mexico, and is currently working on a study of scrupulosity and religious obsession.