2008 are excellent starting points for the undergraduate student or reader unfamiliar with the subject. Hatzfeld 1969 and the mini-series directed by Molina, et al.
While there are hundreds of works that deal with some or all aspects of Teresa’s life and works, a few provide succinct summaries that introduce the salient points of both. The present bibliography is by no means complete, but it offers a starting point for further research. They consider her life and works-both written and foundational-from a variety of perspectives. In the more than four hundred years since her death, works about her number in the thousands. Canonized in 1622, she was also the first woman to be declared a Doctor of the Church, in 1970. Although not published during her lifetime, her major works saw print not long after her death and were translated into most of the European languages shortly thereafter.
As a mystic her writings influenced generations of other authors, both Catholic and non-Catholic through the centuries, even as it invited the scrutiny of the Inquisition. Her written works ranged from the autobiographical Vida (Life), ostensibly penned at the request of her confessor, as well as the mystical Castillo interior o las moradas (Interior castle or the mansions) a treatise on prayer composed for her nuns called Camino de perfección (Way of perfection) an account of the convents she established, Fundaciones (Foundations) and numerous Cartas (Letters).
In her forties she began the reform of the Carmelite order for both men and women as part of what came to be known as the Counter-Reformation. The child of a converso (converted Jewish) father and an “old Christian” mother, her very family name had been adjusted to obscure the paternal background. She also represented in her family background and her life’s work the currents roiling the Spain of her time and place. Teresa of Avila (b. 1515–d. 1582), also known as Santa Teresa de Jesús, is arguably the foremost woman writer of 16th-century Spain.
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