Teresa of Avila and the Politics of Sanctity

An important addition to our understanding and the current reconstruction of one of the best-known mystics, reformers, and spiritual writers in history.”–Church History
“An ambitious book. . . . [Ahlgren] seeks to ‘contextualize the life of Teresa the woman and the meaning of Teresa the saint within the Counter-Reformation agenda by exploring the complex and conflicting notions of female sanctity at work in sixteenth-century Spain.’ The compelling arguments of the book make it worth reading. . . . Perhaps Ahlgren’s most significant contribution to Teresian scholarship is her meticulous assessment of the prolonged theological debate that took place over [Teresa’s] person and writings after her death.”–Sixteenth Century Journal

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