Teresa of Avila and the Politics of Sanctity / / Gillian T. W. Ahlgren.
'An important addition to our understanding and the current reconstruction of one of the best-known mystics, reformers, and spiritual writers in history.'—Church History'An ambitious book. [Ahlgren] seeks to'contextualize the life of Teresa the woman and the meaning of Teresa the...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Women and the Pursuit of Holiness in Sixteenth-Century Spain
- 2. Filling the Void: The Vocation of Teresa de Jesús
- 3. The Right to Write: Authority and Rhetorical Strategy in Teresa’s Works
- 4. Apologia por la Mistica Temenina: Teresa’s Theological Agenda
- 5. Preter Naturam? Posthumous Debates on Teresa’s Orthodoxy
- 6. Teresa la Santa: Alone of All Her Sex?
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Primary and secondary sources of inquisitional inquiries regarding Teresa de Jesús and her works
- Selected Bibliography
- Index