Medieval Mystical Women in the West

Growing in the Height of Love
Herausgeber: Arblaster, John; Faesen, Rob

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the rich and varied mystical writings by and about medieval and early modern women across Western Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Contemporary Theological Explorations in Mysticism
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9781032123493
• ISBN-10: 1032123494
• Artikelnr.: 70151618

Autorenporträt

John Arblaster is Associate Professor of the history of spirituality in the Low Countries at the Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp and Assistant Visiting Professo rat the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven. Rob Faesen is Jesuitica Chair Emeritus at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, and the Francis Xavier Chair at the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology, and is also Professor Emeritus at the Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Mystical Hagiography in the Thirteenth Century: The Low Countries and
Italy 2. Annihilated Women in the Thirteenth Century 3. Hidden Marks of
Leadership: Holy Women and Invisible Stigmata in the Late Middle Ages 4.
'Enarrabiliter': The Separation of Visionary Experience and Communicable
Form in Hildegard of Bingen's Vision Books 5. Gender and Feminine Virtue in
Bernard of Clairvaux and Hadewijch 6. Kenotic Christology, Poverty, and
Annihilation in Clare of Assisi and Angela of Foligno 7. Mysticism by the
Numbers: Beatrice of Nazareth's Seven Manners of Love and Ida of Nivelles'
'Eight Topics of Contemplation' 8. Spiritual Edifices: Beatrice of
Nazareth's Monastery of the Heart and Agnes Blannbekin's Urban Stations of
Christ 9. The Mystic as Symbol: Ecstasy as Liturgical Participation in the
Vita of Beatrice of Nazareth 10. 'I Want to Die Living': The Entanglement
of Death and Desire in Mechthild of Magdeburg 11. Spiritual Vision in
Corporeal Space: The Power of Performative Language in the Mystical Life of
Christina of Hane 12. Can This Text Still Speak? Reading Julian of
Norwich's Prayer for Illness as (Fully a Part of) a 'Classic Text' of
Embodied Mysticism 13. The Theological Virtues, Interiorisation, and
Theological Anthropology in The Evangelical Pearl 14. The Blood and the
Word: The Mystical Speech Acts of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi