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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1780 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

1501–1600

The Sixteenth Century

1 work

1573–1582

Spanish

The Book of the Foundations

Teresa of Ávila · 1515–1582

An account of founding seventeen convents — the lawsuits, the bad roads, the hostile townspeople, the money, and the sisters who turned out to be impossible.

Catholic (Carmelite) · MemoirRead elsewhere