Teresa de Avila, Lettered Woman /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mujica, Bárbara Louise
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Teresa (de Jesús)
Teresa de Jesús, > Santa > 1515-1582 > Correspondencia
Teresa, > of Avila, Saint, > 1515-1582. > Correspondence.
Correspondence (Teresa, of Avila, Saint)
Schriftverkehr
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
RELIGION > Christianity > Catholic.
Personal correspondence.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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