The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography

by Carlos Eire

Book Overview

The life and many afterlives of one of the most enduring mystical testaments ever written

The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila is among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine. The Life is not really an autobiography at all, but rather a confession written for inquisitors by a nun whose raptures and mystical claims had aroused suspicion. Despite its troubled origins, the book has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691164932
• ISBN13: 9780691164939
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.8" x 7.7"