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The Avila of Saint Teresa - Religious Reform in a Sixteenth-Century City (Paperback, With a New Introduction)
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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 religious reforms for which the city's most famous
citizen is celebrated. Bilinkoff takes as her subject the period
during which Avila became a center of intense religious activity
and the home of a number of influential mystics and religious
reformers. During this time, she notes, urban expansion and
increased economic opportunity fostered the social and political
aspirations of a new "middle class" of merchants, professionals,
and minor clerics. This group supported the creation of religious
institutions that fostered such values as individual spiritual
revitalization, religious poverty, and apostolic service to the
urban community. According to Bilinkoff, these reform movements
provided an alternative to the traditional, dynastic style of
spirituality expressed by the ruling elite, and profoundly
influenced Saint Teresa in her renewal of Carmelite monastic life.
A focal point of the book is the controversy surrounding Teresa's
foundation of a new convent in August 1562. Seeking to discover why
people in Avila strenuously opposed this ostensibly innocent act
and to reveal what distinguished Teresa's convent from the many
others in the city, Bilinkoff offers a detailed examination of the
social meaning of religious institutions in Avila. Historians of
early modern Europe, especially those concerned with the history of
religious culture, urban history, and women's history, specialists
in religious studies, and other readers interested in the life of
Saint Teresa or in the history of Catholicism will welcome The
Avila of Saint Teresa. First published by Cornell University Press
in 1989, this new edition of The Avila of Saint Teresa includes a
new introduction in which the author provides an overview of the
scholarship that has proliferated and evolved over the past 25
years on topics covered in her book. This new edition also include
an updated bibliography of works published since 1989 that address
topics and themes discussed in her book.
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