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Author : Frances Beer
Release : 1992
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 437/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages by : Frances Beer
Download or read book Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages written by Frances Beer. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original and thought-provoking study of three medieval women mystics based on writings and biographical material.
Author : Emilie Zum Brunn
Release : 1989
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Women Mystics in Medieval Europe by : Emilie Zum Brunn
Download or read book Women Mystics in Medieval Europe written by Emilie Zum Brunn. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text revives the works of five powerful mystics of the Middle Ages and provides a valuable inspirational resource for all spiritual seekers.
Author : Elizabeth Petroff
Release : 1994
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 559/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Body and Soul by : Elizabeth Petroff
Download or read book Body and Soul written by Elizabeth Petroff. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening a window onto a long-neglected world of women's experience, this text features eleven essays that examine the writings of medieval women mystics from England, France, Germany, Italy, and the Low Countries, providing close readings of a number of important texts from the viewpoint ofdifferent literary theories. Surveying various styles of hagiographical writing, the author offers ground-breaking scholarship on a broad range of topics such as how medieval holy women may have appeared to their contemporaries, medieval antifeminism, comparisons between earlier and later Christianmystical writing, the relationship between male confessors and female penitents in the Middle Ages, and the process by which these extraordinary women produced their work. For courses in religious, medieval, or women's studies, this unique text fills a conspicuous gap in an important and fascinatingfield of literature.
Author : Ulrike Wiethaus
Release : 1993-10-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 605/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Maps of Flesh and Light by : Ulrike Wiethaus
Download or read book Maps of Flesh and Light written by Ulrike Wiethaus. This book was released on 1993-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers interdisciplinary perspectives by women scholars on the diverse cultural contributions of medieval women mystics.
Author : Patricia Dailey
Release : 2013-08-27
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Promised Bodies by : Patricia Dailey
Download or read book Promised Bodies written by Patricia Dailey. This book was released on 2013-08-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Christian tradition, especially in the works of Paul, Augustine, and the exegetes of the Middle Ages, the body is a twofold entity consisting of inner and outer persons that promises to find its true materiality in a time to come. A potentially transformative vehicle, it is a dynamic mirror that can reflect the work of the divine within and substantially alter its own materiality if receptive to divine grace. The writings of Hadewijch of Brabant, a thirteenth-century beguine, engage with this tradition in sophisticated ways both singular to her mysticism and indicative of the theological milieu of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Crossing linguistic and historical boundaries, Patricia Dailey connects the embodied poetics of Hadewijch's visions, writings, and letters to the work of Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, Marguerite of Oingt, and other mystics and visionaries. She establishes new criteria to more consistently understand and assess the singularity of women's mystical texts and, by underscoring the similarities between men's and women's writings of the time, collapses traditional conceptions of gender as they relate to differences in style, language, interpretative practices, forms of literacy, and uses of textuality.
