Despite St. Paul's injunction proscribing women's speech (1 Tim. 2:12) and the virtual male monopoly on medieval texts and literary practice, several works were written by women in fifteenth-century Spain: the Memorias (Memories, circa 1410) of Leonor López de Córdoba; the Devocionario (Prayer Book, circa 1470) of Constanza de Castilla; Vita Christi (The Life of Christ, 1497), by Isabel de Villena (1430-1490); some cancioneros (songbook or anthology of poetry) by Florencia Pinar, María Sarmiento, and Mayor Arias; and Arboleda de los enfermos (translated as "Grove of the Infirm," 1998) and Admiraçión operum Dey (translated as "Wonder at the Works of God," 1998), by Teresa de Cartagena. The last two works, which were composed sometime after 1450 and survive in a unique manuscript, have attracted increased critical and scholarly commentary. Arboleda de los enfermos was written first; the theme of the work is the spiritual benefit of...