# Teresa of Avila and the Rhetoric of Femininity, Vol. 1

By **Alison Weber**

- ISBN-13: 9780691068121
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 200
- Published: 21 Apr 1990

## About this book

Celebrated as a visionary chronicler of spirituality, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) suffered persecution by the Counter-Reformation clergy in Spain, who denounced her for her "diabolical illusions" and "dangerous propaganda." Confronting the historical irony of Teresa's transformation from a figure of questionable orthod

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