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Podcast: New Books in Biography & Memoir
Episode: Holy Paradox and St. Teresa of Ávila: Mysticism in Sixteenth Century Spain
Description: Carlos Eire, author of The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila: A Biography (2019) and professor of medieval and early modern European history and religion at Yale University, discusses the life of St. Teresa and mysticism in sixteenth-century Spain. He also talks a bit about his immigration to the United States as a child refugee from Cuba in the 1960s; his commentary and scholarship has earned him the title of “enemy of the state” in today’s communist Cuba.· Here is Professor Eire’s faculty webpage at Yale University.· Here are books by Carlos Eire available from Amazon.com....