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Teresa de Avila, Lettered Woman
Bárbara Mujica
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Description for Teresa de Avila, Lettered Woman
Hardcover. In 1562, Teresa de Avila founded the Discalced Carmelites and launched a reform movement that would pit her against the Church hierarchy and the male officials of her own religious order. This new spirituality, which stressed interiority and a personal relationship with God, was considered dangerous and subversive. Num Pages: 272 pages, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: BGX; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 730.
In 1562, Teresa de Avila founded the Discalced Carmelites and launched a reform movement that would pit her against the Church hierarchy and the male officials of her own religious order. This new spirituality, which stressed interiority and a personal relationship with God, was considered dangerous and subversive. It provoked the suspicion of the Inquisition and the wrath of unreformed Carmelites, especially the Andalusian friars, who favored the lax practices of their traditional monasteries. The Inquisition investigated Teresa repeatedly, and the Carmelite General had her detained. But even during the most terrible periods of persecution, Teresa continued to fight for ... Read more
In 1562, Teresa de Avila founded the Discalced Carmelites and launched a reform movement that would pit her against the Church hierarchy and the male officials of her own religious order. This new spirituality, which stressed interiority and a personal relationship with God, was considered dangerous and subversive. It provoked the suspicion of the Inquisition and the wrath of unreformed Carmelites, especially the Andalusian friars, who favored the lax practices of their traditional monasteries. The Inquisition investigated Teresa repeatedly, and the Carmelite General had her detained. But even during the most terrible periods of persecution, Teresa continued to fight for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826516312
SKU
V9780826516312
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About Bárbara Mujica
Barbara Mujica is a Professor of Spanish at Georgetown University and President Emerita of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT). She is a specialist in early modern Spanish literature who has written extensively on mysticism, the pastoral novel, and seventeenth-century theater. She is also a best-selling novelist whose most recent work is Sister Teresa, based on the life of ... Read more
Reviews for Teresa de Avila, Lettered Woman
Mujica expertly and gracefully weaves together materials from numerous academic fields, including monastic and eccleslastical history, analyses of Church doctrine, national history, literary theory and criticism, and hagiography, among others, and the very readable prose makes it accessible to the general educated reader. CAROL SLADE AUTHOR OF ST. TERESA OF AVILA: AUTHOR OF A HEROIC LIFE ""This book will be ... Read more