Sara Nalle

World History

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Sara T. Nalle earned her Ph.D. in European history at the Johns Hopkins University and teaches courses on the history of Spain, the Renaissance, Reformation, Age of Discovery, among others. An award-winning author, she has published two books and numerous articles on the history of religion, literacy, book publishing, the Inquisition, and insanity in Spain during the sixteenth and seventeeth century. Her current research focuses on the history of the family and ethnic identity in Spain during the same period. Education: PhD, History--The Johns Hopkins University, 1983, MA, History--The Johns Hopkins University, 1978, AB, History and Spanish--Bryn Mawr Colege, 1975. Selected Publications - Books: Loco por Dios: Bartolomé Sánchez, el mesías secreto de Cardenete. Madrid: La Torre Literaria, 2009. Translation of Mad for God. Mad for God: Bartolomé Sánchez, the Secret Messiah of Cardenete. A book dealing with the connections between religious radicalism, rebellion, and perceptions of sanity in sixteenth-century Spain. University Press of Virginia, Jan. 2001. Second printing, fall 2001. God in La Mancha: Religious Reform and the People of Cuenca, 1500-1650. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Paperback edition; 2008. ¡Electronic publication, LIBRO, 2001 (http://libro.uca.edu).

Mad for God

April 03, 2013

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/508007.Mad_for_God Mad for God: Bartolome Sanchez, the Secret Messiah of Cardenete by Sara Tilghman Nalle Convinced…

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