Teresa de Avila, Lettered Woman
Barbara Mujica
Teresa de Avila, Lettered Woman
Teresa de Avila, Lettered Woman
Barbara Mujica
Descripción
Teresa's epistolary writing reveals how she used her political acumen to dodge inquisitors and negotiate the thorny issues of the reform, facing off the authorities--albeit with considerable tact--and reprimanding priests and nuns who failed to follow her orders. Her letters bring to light the different strategies she used--code names, secret routing--in order to communicate with nuns and male allies. They show how she manipulated language, varying her tone and rhetoric according to the recipient or slipping into deliberate vagueness in order to avoid divulging secrets. What emerges from her correspondence is a portrait of extraordinary courage, ability, and shrewdness.
In the sixteenth century, the word letrado (lettered) referred to the learned men of the Church. Teresa treated letrados with great respect and always insisted on her own lack of learning. The irony is that although women could not be letradas, Teresa was, as her correspondence shows, "lettered" in more ways than one.
How a sixteenth-century nun used letter-writing to direct a spiritual revolutionDetalles
| Formato | Tapa dura |
| Número de Páginas | 272 |
| Lenguaje | Inglés |
| Editorial | Vanderbilt University Press |
| Fecha de Publicación | 2009-05-01 |
| Dimensiones | 10.32" x 7.24" x 0.98" pulgadas |
| Letra Grande | No |
| Con Ilustraciones | No |
| Temas | Femenino |
Acerca del Autor
Mujica, Barbara
Barbara Mujica is a Professor of Spanish at Georgetown University and President Emerita of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT). She is specialist in Early Modern Spanish literature who has written extensively on mysticism, the pastoral novel, and seventeenth-century theater. She is also a best-selling novelist whose most recent work is Sister Teresa, based on the life of Teresa of Avila.Garantía & Otros
| Garantía: | 30 dias por defectos de fabrica |
| Peso: | 0.73 kg |
| SKU: | 9780826516312 |
| Publicado en Unimart.com: | 01/11/23 |
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