Author of a Heroic Life Slade, Carole Additional Author mixed material bibliography London Univ. of California Press Ltd. 1995 en English

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xxii + 204hlm: 16x23,5cm With few exceptions, representations of Renaissance women were created by men. The Spanish saint, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), who chose to represent herself, was one of those exceptions. What prompted her to write Book of Her Life, Interior Castle, and other works? What does the self-portrait of this sixteenth-century nun, mystic, and founder of convents reveal about its author, the church, state, and role of women? St. Teresa of Avila, an innovative analysis of Teresa's autobiographical writings, explores these and many other questions. Bringing to bear a knowledge of Inquisition studies, theory of autobiography, scriptural hermeneutics, and hagiography, Carole Slade defines Teresa's writings as a project of self-interpretation undertaken mainly as the result of the perceived, later realized, threat of an accusation of heresy. Being female and of paternal Jewish ancestry, Teresa was vulnerable to such a charge. Gereja Katolik orang suci (Theresia Avila) 282.092 0520088026 PERPUSTAKAAN STFT WIDYA SASANA Jln. Terusan Rajabasa 2 Malang 282.092 Sla s 8582 282.092 Sla s St._Teresa_of_Avila-Author.jpg.jpg 13087 2019-11-07 18:21:44 2021-05-10 10:56:28 machine generated