El Castillo Interior
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El Castillo Interior (trans.:The Interior Castle) was written by Saint Teresa of Avila in 1577. It contained the basis for what she felt should be the ideal faith journey, comparing the contemplative soul to a castle with seven successive interior courts, or chambers, analogous to the seven heavens. Teresa's consumption of chivalric romances as a child subsequently influenced such imagery prevalent in many of her mystical works.[1]
An English translation was published in London in 1852.
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- Paul Morris, "Lonesome Knights of a Spanish Nun: Teresa of Avila and Chivalresque Literature in Sixteenth-Century Spain," ANISTORITON: Viewpoints, 9, December 2005, Section V054.
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