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John of the Cross · 1577–1584 · Poem
"Tras de un amoroso lance" is a short lyric by John of the Cross, known, like most of his poems, by its opening line: "After an amorous quest, and not lacking in…
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John of the Cross · 1577–1591 · Book
This is the 1864 English collected edition. The complete works of John of the Cross emerge from the crucible of sixteenth-century Spanish mysticism and the fierce opposition he faced as a Carmelite…
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Teresa of Ávila · 1577 · Book
Teresa of Ávila wrote The Interior Castle in 1577 at the request of her confessor, completing this masterwork of mystical theology in just two months despite severe illness and the pressures of…
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Girolamo Zanchi · 1577 · Treatise
Girolamo Zanchi's De Natura Dei emerged from the theological ferment of late sixteenth-century Reformed orthodoxy, when Protestant scholastics were developing systematic frameworks to articulate and defend Reformed doctrine. Writing as professor at…
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John of the Cross · 1577–1584 · Treatise
The Spiritual Canticle emerged from the depths of imprisonment and mystical experience. John of the Cross composed the initial stanzas while confined in a tiny cell in Toledo by his own Carmelite…
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John of the Cross · 1578 · Treatise
John of the Cross composed this treatise as a detailed commentary on his own mystical poem of the same name, written during his imprisonment by fellow Carmelites in Toledo in 1577. The…
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John of the Cross · 1578–1591 · Poem
"Por toda la hermosura" is one of the shorter poems of John of the Cross, the Castilian Carmelite friar (1542–1591) who worked alongside Teresa of Ávila to reform the order and paid…
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John of the Cross · 1578 · Poem
"Que bien sé yo la fonte que mana y corre, aunque es de noche" — "How well I know the fount that flows and runs, although it is night" — is a…
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John of the Cross · 1578–1580 · Poem
A short lyric in Spanish, traditionally titled "Coplas hechas sobre un éxtasis de harta contemplación" — stanzas made upon an ecstasy of deep contemplation — and known by its first line, "Entréme…
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John of the Cross · 1578 · Poem
"Vivo sin vivir en mí" is a short Spanish lyric by the Carmelite friar John of the Cross, known in manuscript tradition under the heading "Coplas del alma que pena por ver…
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John of the Cross · 1578 · Poem
"Del Verbo divino" is the shortest surviving poem of John of the Cross: four lines of Spanish ballad verse, a single copla, small enough to be copied on a scrap and carried…
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John of the Cross · 1578 · Poem
Eight stanzas in Spanish liras, composed by a Carmelite friar in his mid-thirties who had recently been imprisoned in a Toledo monastery cell by members of his own order opposed to the…
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John of the Cross · 1578–1579 · Poem
A short Spanish ballad paraphrasing Psalm 137 (Vulgate 136), the psalm of the exiles weeping by the rivers of Babylon. It belongs to the body of verse that emerged from the crisis…
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John of the Cross · 1578–1579 · Poem
A sequence of nine ballads in the plain octosyllabic assonant meter of Spanish popular song, composed by John of the Cross during or immediately after his nine months of confinement in the…
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John of the Cross · 1578–1579 · Other
The "Mount of Perfection" is a small drawing with handwritten captions that John of the Cross made for the Discalced Carmelite nuns he directed in Andalusia after his escape from the Toledo…
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John of the Cross · 1578–1584 · Poem
The Spiritual Canticle is a lyric poem of some forty stanzas in liras, spoken mostly by a bride who has lost her Beloved and goes out to find him. Its beginnings are…
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John of the Cross · 1578 · Poem
A short lyric poem in Spanish by John of the Cross (1542–1591), the Carmelite friar who worked with Teresa of Ávila on the reform of the order, was imprisoned by his own…
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Caspar Olevianus · 1579 · Commentary
Caspar Olevianus's commentary on Romans emerged from the turbulent theological landscape of sixteenth-century Reformed Protestantism, written by one of the principal architects of the Heidelberg Catechism. Published in 1579, this systematic exposition…
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Unity of the Brethren scholars · 1579 · Scripture
The Bible of Kralice is a landmark Czech Bible, produced by scholars of the Unity of Brethren and named for the Moravian town of Kralice, where it was printed in the later…
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John of the Cross · 1579–1585 · Treatise
The Ascent of Mount Carmel emerged from John of the Cross's profound spiritual experience and his pastoral responsibility as spiritual director to the reformed Carmelite communities in sixteenth-century Spain. Written during his…
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Luis de León · 1580–1591 · Commentary
Luis de León's commentary on the Book of Job emerged from his profound engagement with biblical wisdom literature during his years as a professor of theology at the University of Salamanca. Writing…
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Luis de León · 1580 · Commentary
Luis de León's Latin commentary on the Song of Solomon emerged from his scholarly work as an Augustinian friar and professor of theology at the University of Salamanca during the Spanish Golden…
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Ostrog scholarly circle under Prince Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski · 1581 · Scripture
Printed in 1581 at Ostroh in Volhynia, under the patronage of Prince Konstantin Ostrogski and with the press work of Ivan Fedorov, the Ostrog Bible was the first complete printed Bible in…
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John of the Cross · 1581–1591 · Letter
Thirty-three letters survive from John of the Cross, written between 1581 and 1591, the decade in which he governed houses of the Discalced Carmelite reform in Andalusia and Castile — the college…
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