{"product_id":"the-avila-of-saint-teresa-religious-reform-in-a-sixteenth-century-city-paperback-softback-9780801479816","title":"The Avila of Saint Teresa; Religious Reform in a Sixteenth-Century City (Paperback \/ softback) 9780801479816","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Avila of Saint Teresa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReligious Reform in a Sixteenth-Century City\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJodi Bilinkoff (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801479816\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 February 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages, 5 halftones - 5 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn important addition to our understanding of sixteenth-century Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e (Sixteenth Century Journal) \u003cp\u003eExamining the Catholic Reform and Counter-Reformation through the microcosm of the city of Avila, Bilinkoff provides a depth of analysis unequalled by any other study of this major reform movement.\u003c\/p\u003e (Catholic Historical Review) \u003cp\u003eThe name Teresa of Avila immediately evokes Bernini's stone image of the saint in ecstasy. This lucid and readable study reveals another more public Teresa, the egalitarian monastic reformer. Tracing the development of Teresa's ideas in the context of the religious and social ferment of 16th-century Avila, Bilinkoff demonstrates the interaction between the urban pietistic reform movements and the rise of a non-noble merchant class of largely Jewish descent. Teresa's effort to reform the Carmelite order by founding small, unendowed convents devoted to contemplative prayer, Bilinkoff argues, challenged class and racial prejudices as well as the traditional dependence of monastic institutions on the aristocracy. Balanced and well researched, this volume will be welcomed by religious and social historians and scholars in women's studies.\u003c\/p\u003e (Virginia Quarterly Review) \u003cp\u003eWhat Bilinkoff does exceedingly well is to give us a genuine feel for the city of Avila both before and after Teresa's lifetime.... Readers of this great saint's work will be enriched by this careful piece of social history.\u003c\/p\u003e (Commonweal)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Avila of Saint Teresa \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eprovides 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.\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBilinkoff 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Avila of Saint Teresa.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFirst published by Cornell University Press in 1989, this new edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Avila of Saint Teresa\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface to the 1989 Edition\u003cbr\u003e Introduction to the 2014 Edition\u003cbr\u003e Additional Bibliographic Sources (2014)\u003c\/i\u003eChapter 1. The City of Saint TeresaChapter 2. Aristocratic Dominance and Monastic Foundation, 1480–1520Chapter 3. Public Works, Private Goals, 1520–1540Chapter 4. Toward a New Definition of Reform, 1540–I570Chapter 5. Saint Teresa of Jesus and Carmelite Reform, 1560–1580Chapter 6. Avila after Saint Teresa, 1580–1620Epilogue\u003ci\u003eSelected Bibliography (1989)\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52735245353240,"sku":"9780801479816","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-avila-of-saint-teresa-religious-reform-in-a-sixteenth-century-city-paperback-softback-9780801479816","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}