In context
Subtitle: Teresa of Ávila, John of the Cross, and their world
By: Mark O'Keefe, O.S.B.
Publisher: ICS Publications, Institute of Carmelite Studies
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781939272850; 9781939272867
Subjects: History; Mysticism; Monasticism and religious orders; Inquisition; Church history; Social conditions; Histoire; Mysticisme; Monachisme et ordres religieux; Histoire religieuse; Carmelites; Catholic Church; Église catholique
Description: The Spanish world of the sixteenth century -- The city of Ávila -- Honor, social class, and poverty -- Reform of the Church and religious orders -- The Carmelites -- The Monastery of the Incarnation -- Spiritual antecedents -- Alumbrados -- Jews, conversos, and the Spanish inquisition -- Teresa of Jesus: a woman in sixteenth-century Spain.

"This title investigates the historical and sociohistorical context of Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross. These two prolific authors, sixteenth-century religious reformers, and Catholic saints collaborated over the span of two decades. Scholar Mark O'Keefe dives deep into various aspects of sixteenth-century Catholic Spain to determine how events, people, places, and trends influenced the work of Teresa and John. Readers will gain a better insight into how the real dangers of the Spanish Inquisition kept these reformers on their toes, careful to appease ecclesiastical censors and the Spanish crown"
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.