Teresa: a woman : a biography of Teresa of Avila
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Teresa: a woman : a biography of Teresa of Avila
（SUNY series in cultural perspectives）
State University of New York Press, c1984
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includes bibliographical references (p. xxiv) and index
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She was a saint, a mystic, a reformer, a legend, and she was a fascinating and complex woman. This is the first full-scale biography of Saint Teresa of Avila from a human, nonconfessional point of view. Victoria Lincoln immersed herself thoroughly in all of Saint Teresa's writings, including her extensive correspondence. She has reconstructed the inner life of this rigorous reformer of the Carmelite Order and disciplined explorer of mystical experience. The relation between Saint Teresa's inner and outer life is defined with new insight and profundity.
Table of Contents
- Introduction by Antonio T. de Nicolas Editor's Foreword by Elias Rivers Essential Bibliography Chronology List of People and Places Preface by Victoria Lincoln Acknowledgments 1. Juan Sanchez, Teresa's Jewish Grandfather 2. Teresa's Father and Mother
- Her Birth in Gotarrendura 3. Teresa's Siblings 4. Teresa as a Child and as a Very Young Woman in Avila 5. Her Life in an Augustininan Convent 6. Teresa as Nun in the Unenclosed Carmelite Convent of the Incarnarion 7. Osuna's Third Spiritual Alphabet
- "Mental Prayer" 8. Teresa's Recovery from Serious Illness 9. Inner Conflict
- Teresa's Second Conversion following Her Reading of St. Augustine's Confessions 10. Jesuit Confessors
- Teresa's Desire to Escape from the Incarnation 11. Breakdown of Teresa's Health
- Living in the House of Yomar (Dona Guiomar de Ulloa)
- Teresa and Certain Jesuits
- The First Rapture 12. Teresa and Her Confessor, Juan de Pradanos
- Visions and Voices 13. "The Ecstasy of St. Teresa" 14. Fray Pedro de Alcantara 15. The Idea of Founding a Reformed, Enclosed Carmelite Convent 16. First Steps toward Establishing a Reformed Convent
- Difficulties 17. Teresa Ordered to Toledo as Spiritual Companion to a Widowed Great Lady. Teresa Writes Her Life, as Ordered to by Father Garcia de Toledo 18. Bishop Mendoza
- Humble Founding of St. Joseph's Discalced Convent in Avila 19. Saving St. Joseph's from Being Closed by the City Council 20. Teresa's Constitutions for Discalced Carmelite Nuns 21. Garcia de Toledo, Domingo Banez, and The Way of Perfection 22. Enter Rubeo (Father Rossi, New Carmelite General) 23. House-hunting for a Reformed Convent in Medina del Campo
- Heredia
- John of the Cross 24. Malagon. Trouble Caused by Teresa's Loan of Manuscript of Her Life 25. A Tiny House for Discalced Carmelite Friars in Duruelo
- Labors of John of the Cross
- Malaria 26. Convenets in Valladolid and Toledo 27. The Princess of Eboli 28. A Year in Toledo
- Inquisitor Soto 29. Founding in Salamanca
- the Bad Friars at Pastrana
- The Book of Foundations 30. Teresa's Very Partial Account of the Foundings in Salamanca and Alba de Tormes 31. Cause of the Delay in Salamanca
- What Happened in Alba de Tormes 32. Teresa and Martin de Gutierrez
- Climate of Fear 33. The Carmelite Provincial's Plan to Sidetrack Teresa 34. Her Return to the Incarnation as Prioress 35. John of the Cross at the Incarnation as Its Vicar and Confessor to the Nuns 36. Enter Gracian
- a Letter from Teresa to King Philip 37. The House at Salamanca, Father Baltasar Alvarez, and the Widowed Princess of Eboli as a Nun 38. Father Domingo Banez, Gracian, Nieto, and Mariano 39. Founding a Convent in Segovia 40. The Spanish Inquisition 41. Founding a Convent at Beas
- Teresa's Blind Faith in Gracian 42. Teresa's Love for Gracian, and Her Vow to Him 43. The Journey to Seville 44. Teresa in Seville
- Her Letters to Her General, Rubeo 45. Teresa's Appeal to King Philip
- Her Strangely Unadmirable Self-justifying Letter to a Prioress 46. Maria del Corro
- General Rubeo's Condemnation of Teresa
- His Authority versus that of Gracian as Apostolic Visitor 47. A Letter from Teresa to General Rubeo
- the Inquisition Comes to Seville to Question Her 48. Teresa's Superb Successful Defense
- the Convent at Caravaca
- Letters of this Time 49. The Vicar-General, Tostado
- Teresa's Flight from Seville to Malagon
- Financial Problems of the Convents 50. Some of Teresa's Troubles with Gracian 51. Teresa's New Book, The Visitation of Convents
- Letters She Wrote during a Year on Toledo 52. Teresa's Fears for Gracian 53. New Problems
- Maria de San Jose
- More Letters to Gracian 54. Teresa and Her Brother Lorenzo 55. Things Go from Bad to Worse for Teresa, Gracian, and the Discalced 56. More Letters
- Writing The Interior Castle
- Death of the Friendly Papal Nuncio 57. War between Calced and Discalced Carmelites
- Teresa's Effort to Overcome Effects of Gracian's Inactivity
- an Imbroglio and Violence at the Incarnation 58. Imprisonment of John of the Cross
- Teresa's Letters to the King 59. Beginning of a Year of Crisis
- Idea of Making the Discalced a Separate Order 60. Teresa's Attempts to Influence the New Nuncio, Sega, Who is Hostile to Reforms 61. Teresa's Advice to Gracian on an Appeal to Rome 62. Gracian, King Philip, and the Nuncio 63. Accusations at the Seville Convent
- Teresa and Doria 64. Teresa's Travels Resumed 65. A Foundation at Villanueva de la Jara
- a Threat of Violence to Teresa in Montalban 66. Orders to Visit Valladolid and Segovia and to Found in Palencia
- John of the Cross, a Saint 67. Teresa's Meditations
- Death of Her Brother Lorenzo 68. Teresa'a Brush with Death
- Death of Friends 69. An Unopposed Founding in Palencia 70. A Chapter Meeting of the Discalced
- Teresa's New Constitutions for the Order 71. Plan to Found in Soria 72. The Soria Founding 73. Failure of St. Joseph's and Other Convents to Maintain Teresa's Ideals 74. More Problems for Teresa 75. Dr. Castro, a Congenial Confessor
- Last Meeting with John of the Cross 76. A Ghastly Trip to Burgos 77. A Founding in Burgos Despite Hostility 78. Trouble with Jesuits
- Beginning of Teresa's Fatal Illness
- Burgos Flooded 79. Visit to Palencia
- Last Letter to Gracian 80. A Bad Reception in Valladolid
- Teresa Kidnapped by Heredia
- a Mess in Alba de Tormes 81. Teresa's Death and Burial
- Exhumation at Gracian's Orders
- Author's Last Words on St. Teresa Index
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