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The Book of the Foundations
Libro de las fundaciones
A chronicle of the foundations from Medina to Burgos, with portraits of nuns, benefactors and adversaries, negotiations over houses and incomes, journeys by cart and episodes of humour. It interleaves doctrinal chapters on obedience, melancholy in convents and the discernment of revelations. It is the principal source for the history of the Teresian reform and a first-rate document of urban and ecclesiastical life in Philip II's Castile. It contains the phrase about the Lord who 'walks among the pots and pans' (5,8).
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Authorship note
Begun in Salamanca in 1573 at Fr Ripalda's command and continued up to the Burgos foundation (1582). Autograph in the Royal Library of El Escorial. Published posthumously (Brussels, 1610).
Editions and translations
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English
Teresa of Ávila
The Book of Her Foundations (en Collected Works, vol. 3)
The Conscious LibraryThe Book of Her Foundations (en Collected Works, vol. 3)
ICS Publications, 1985
Translation: Kieran Kavanaugh y Otilio Rodríguez
ISBN 9780935216769
Español
Teresa of Ávila
Libro de las fundaciones
The Conscious LibraryLibro de las fundaciones
Espasa-Calpe, 1982
ISBN 9788423921058
Introducción, edición y notas de Víctor García de la Concha.
Teresa of Ávila
Libro de las Fundaciones
The Conscious LibraryLibro de las Fundaciones
San Pablo, 2012
ISBN 9788428539319
Edición a cargo de Salvador Ros García.
Other works by Teresa of Ávila
- The Book of Her Life · 1565
- The Way of Perfection · 1566
- The Interior Castle (The Mansions) · 1577
- Spiritual Testimonies (Accounts of Conscience) · 1581
- Meditations on the Song of Songs · 1567
- Soliloquies (Exclamations of the Soul to God) · 1569
- Constitutions · 1567
- On Making the Visitation · 1576
- Poems · 1570
- Letters · 1582
- A Satirical Critique · 1577
- Maxims (Counsels) · 1580
- Complete Works (collected editions) · 1588
- Response to a Spiritual Challenge · 1573
- Ordinances for a Confraternity · 1571
- Seven Meditations on the Lord's Prayer · 1630
Sources
- Teresa de Jesús. Obras completas. Transcripción, introducciones y notas de Efrén de la Madre de Dios y Otger Steggink. Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 1962 (ediciones posteriores revisadas).
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