Wolfgang Riehle

The Middle English Mystics

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published as an English translation in 1981, The Middle English Mystics is a crucial contribution to the study of the literature of English mysticism. This book surveys and analyses the language of metaphor in the writings of such mystics as Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, Julian of Norwich, and in such anonymous works as The Cloud of Unknowing and the Ancrene Wisse. The main emphasis of this comparative and stylistic study is not theological but rather the means by which theological concepts are communicated through language. The book sets the English mystics in perspective by establishing their place in the European mystical movement of the Middle Ages. It shows how intricate the relationship between English, and continental mysticism really is. The book suggests that there is clear links between English and German female mysticism, yet the mysticism is in the main due not so much to specific influences as to the common background of Christian theology and mysticism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 337g
• ISBN-13: 9780367211318
• ISBN-10: 0367211319
• Artikelnr.: 69891514

Autorenporträt

Wolfgang Riehle

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Public for Mystical Literature in
England 2. The Interrelation Between Continental and English Mysticism 3.
The Song of Songs and Metaphors for Love in English Mysticism 4. Metaphors
for the Preparation for the Unio Mystica; Man's Withdrawal into Himself;
The Soul's 'Emptying Itself' as Prerequisite for the Unio Mystica; The
Laying Bare of the Soul; Mystical Annihilation 5. Metaphors for the Way of
the Soul to God 6. Metaphors for Speaking About God in English Mysticism 7.
Technical Terms for the Mystical Union and for Ecstasy; Unio and Unitas of
Man and God; Extasis and Excessus Mentis; The Mystical Raptus; The
Familiaritas cum Deo; The Commercium cum Deo 8. The Experience of God as a
Spiritual Sense Perception 8.1. The Unio as Mystical Enjoyment of God 8.1a.
The Fruitio Dei 8.1b. The Eating and Tasting of God 8.2. Felen and Feling
as Mystical Terms 8.3. The Touching of Man and God 8.4. The Unio Mystica
as a Smelling and Hearing or Speaking of God 8.5. Excursus: The
Significance of Metaphors in Music in English Mysticism 8.6. The Visio Dei
9. The Metaphorical Complex of Having God 10. The Mystical Experience of
God as Rest, Sleep, Death and Complete Absorption of the Self 11. The Image
of God in the Soul, Mystical Deification and Union in the Ground of the
Soul 11.1. The Imago and Similitudo Character of the Soul and its
Reformatio 11.2. The Deification of the Soul 11.3. The Ground of the Soul
in English Mysticism Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Middle English
Word Index Index of Names and Titles