The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitional Spain - Paperbackby Lisa Vollendorf (Author) Recovering voices long relegated to silence, The Lives of Women deciphers the responses of women to the culture of control in seventeenth century Spain. In this new history of Inquisitional Spain, Lisa Vollendorf incorporates convent texts, Inquisition cases, biographies, and women's literature to reveal a previously unrecognized boom in women's writing between 1580 and 1700. During this period, more women wrote for the