| Description |
xii, 235 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Women and mysticism in the medieval world -- Unmasking women: medieval responses to the unknowability of the lady -- A new feminine spirituality: the beguines and their writings in medieval Europe -- A medieval woman's utopian vision: the rule of St. Clare of Assisi -- Eloquence and heroic virginity in Hrotsvit's verse legends -- Transforming the world: the serpent-dragon and the virgin saint -- "She seemed to have come from the desert": Italian women saints and the Vitae Patrum cycle -- Male confessors and female penitents: possibilities for dialogue -- The rhetoric of transgression in the Lives of Italian women saints -- Gender, knowledge, and power in Hadewijch's Strophische Gedichten -- Writing the body: male and female in the writings of Marguerite d'Oingt, Angela of Foligno, and Umilita of Faenza. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Women mystics -- Europe.
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Mysticism -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Mysticism and literature.
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Christian literature -- History and criticism.
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| Indexed Term |
Christianity Mysticism |
| ISBN |
0195084543 alkaline paper |
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0195084551 paperback |
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