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Author Bynum, Caroline Walker.

Title Jesus as mother : studies in the spirituality of the High Middle Ages / Caroline Walker Bynum.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1982]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  255 B994J    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 279 pages ; 25 cm.
Series Publications of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA ; 16
Publications of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies ; 16.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Introduction -- 1. The spirituality of regular canons in the twelfth century -- 2. The Cistercian conception of community -- 3. Did the twelfth century discover the individual? -- 4. Jesus as mother and abbot as mother: some themes in twelfth-century Cistercian writing -- 5. Women mystics in the thirteenth century: the case of the nuns of Helfta -- Appendix: Monastic and canonical treatises of practical spiritual advice.
Subject Spiritual life -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Monastic and religious life -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
God -- Motherhood -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
ISBN 0520041941
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