Because “writing” is not only the final output or product, but also a process or activity, both the experience of writing and the final object of that experience requires close scrutiny in order to identify how a woman writer might even consider approaching the process of writing.
Some of the readings on this list, suggested by Professor Yonsoo Kim for the preparation of this session of Iberian Connections, deal, precisely, with necessary reassessments of the work of Teresa as a writer, and the life of Teresa within and outside the walls of the convents in which she lived.
The (known) works of Teresa de Cartagena are preserved in one single manuscript:
Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo del Escorial, h.III.24
This manuscript refers to these works as tratados that were commanded by Juana de Mendoza.
