Teresa de Avila, Lettered Woman

by Bárbara Mujica and Barbara Louise Mujica

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826516319
• ISBN13: 9780826516312
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 10.3"