Teresa de Avila, Lettered Woman /
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...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Nashville :
Vanderbilt University Press,
2009.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- From Teresa de Ahumada to Saint Teresa
- Teresa de Jesús: woman of letters
- God's warrior and her epistolary weapons
- Correspondence and correspondents
- Letter-writing as self-representation
- Forging sainthood: Teresa's letters as relics.