Jodi Bilinkoff

The Avila of Saint Teresa

Religious Reform in a Sixteenth-Century City

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Produktbeschreibung

The Avila of Saint Teresa provides both a fascinating account of social and religious change in one important Castilian city and a historical analysis of the life and work of the religious mystic Saint Teresa of Jesus. Jodi Bilinkoff's rich socioeconomic history of sixteenth-century Avila illuminates the conditions that helped to shape the...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• 2nd With a New Introduction edition
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780801479816
• ISBN-10: 0801479819
• Artikelnr.: 40921725

Autorenporträt

Jodi Bilinkoff is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is the author of Related Lives: Confessors and Their Female Penitents, 1450-1750, also from Cornell, and coeditor of Colonial Saints: Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500-1800.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the 1989 Edition
Introduction to the 2014 Edition
Additional Bibliographic Sources (2014)Chapter 1. The City of Saint
TeresaChapter 2. Aristocratic Dominance and Monastic Foundation,
1480-1520Chapter 3. Public Works, Private Goals, 1520-1540Chapter 4. Toward
a New Definition of Reform, 1540-I570Chapter 5. Saint Teresa of Jesus and
Carmelite Reform, 1560-1580Chapter 6. Avila after Saint Teresa,
1580-1620EpilogueSelected Bibliography (1989)
Index