Title: In context
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"
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, Spirituality, Religion
Places: Spain, Avila (Spain), Espagne, Avila
People: Teresa of Avila, Saint (1515-1582), John of the Cross Saint (1542-1591)
Time periods: 16th century, 16e siècle