Late Medieval Mysticism

Author : Ray C. Petry
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1957-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664241638

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Late Medieval Mysticism by Ray C. Petry Pdf

Included in this collection of Medieval writings are Ray Petry's careful essays on the province and character of mysticism and the history of mysticism from Plato to Bernard of Clairvaux. Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides scholars and students with modern English translations of some of the most significant Christian theological texts in history. Through these works--each written prior to the end of the sixteenth century--contemporary readers are able to engage the ideas that have shaped Christian theology and the church through the centuries.

Author : Rik Van Nieuwenhove,Rob Faesen,H. Rolfson
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 080914297X

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Late Medieval Mysticism of the Low Countries by Rik Van Nieuwenhove,Rob Faesen,H. Rolfson Pdf

This book contains translations and introductions to some of the major representatives of the spiritual tradition of the Low Countries from ca. 1350 onwards.

Author : Ray C. Petry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258028298

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Late Medieval Mysticism by Ray C. Petry Pdf

Additional Editor Is Henry P. Van Dusen. The Library Of Christian Classics, V13.

Author : Ben Morgan
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780823239924

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On Becoming God:Late Medieval Mysticism and the Modern Western Self by Ben Morgan Pdf

Do we have to conceive of ourselves as isolated individuals, inevitably distanced from other people and from whatever we might mean when we use the word God? On Becoming God offers an innovative approach to the history of the modern Western self by looking at human identity as something people do together rather than on their own. Ben Morgan argues that the shared practices of human identity can be understood as ways of managing and keeping at bay the impulses and experiences associated with the word God. The "self" is a way of doing things, or of not doing things, with "God." The book draws on phenomenology (Heidegger), gender studies (Beauvoir, Butler) and contemporary neuroscience to present a new approach to the history of modern identity. It surveys existing approaches to modern selfhood (Foucault, Charles Taylor) and proposes an alternative account by investigating late medieval mysticism, in particular texts written in Germany by Meister Eckhart and others in the same milieu. Reactions to the condemnation of Meister Eckhart's teaching for heresy in 1329 offer a microcosm of the circumstances in which something like the modern self arises as people change their behavior toward others, toward themselves, and toward what they call "God." The book makes Meister Eckhart and his contemporaries appear as our contemporaries by changing the assumptions with which we approach our own identity. To make this change requires a revision of current vocabularies for approaching ourselves, and in particular the vocabulary and habits inherited from psychoanalysis. The book finishes by exploring the parallel between late medieval confessors and their spiritual charges, and late-nineteenth-century psychoanalysts and their patients. The result is a renewed vision of the Freud's project of finding a vocabulary for acknowledging and nurturing our everyday commitments to others and to our spiritual longings.

Author : Marion Glasscoe
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0859912361

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The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England by Marion Glasscoe Pdf

These papers are the proceedings of the fourth international Exeter Symposium. They promote enquiry into, and understanding of, the medieval mystics and the cultural context to which they belong. Here, historians, literary critics, theologians, philosophers and bibliographical scholars explore ways in which the contemplative tradition was mediated and perceived in the very early and very late medieval period, and ask fundamental questions about the nature of contemporary understanding of this subject. CONTRIBUTORS: GEORGE R. KEISER, SUE ELLEN HOLBROOK, WILLIAM F. POLLARD, JAMES HOGG, SANDRA MCENTIRE, ANNE SAVAGE, PETER DINZELBACHER, NICHOLAS WATSON, PETER MOORE, ROBERT K. FORMAN

Author : Racha Kirakosian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108841238

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From the Material to the Mystical in Late Medieval Piety by Racha Kirakosian Pdf

Examining correlations between the material and the mystical, this books investigates collective writing and devotional culture in late medieval piety.

Author : Elizabeth Andersen,Henrike Lähnemann,Anne Simon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004258457

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A Companion to Mysticism and Devotion in Northern Germany in the Late Middle Ages by Elizabeth Andersen,Henrike Lähnemann,Anne Simon Pdf

The volume explores the hitherto uncharted late medieval religious landscape of Northern Germany, from 13th-century Helfta to the 15th-century Lüneburg convents. The mystical and devotional writing of Northern Germany is contextualised through chapters on the Netherlands, Scandinavia and East Prussia. The seminal influence of the liturgy on these texts and their transmission is revealed in the creative interplay of Latin and Low German. Through the individual chapters and their appendices, which also contain translations into English, the reader can access a wealth of texts produced by communities of religious and lay women who write learnedly in Latin and fervently in Low German. Together, the chapters and appendices reveal a fascinating regional "mystical culture" which also reverberated across Northern Europe. Contributors include: Jürgen Bärsch, Anne Bollmann, Veerle Fraeters, Ulrike Hascher-Burger, Ernst Hellgardt, Tanja Mattern, Balazs Nemes, Sara S. Poor, Eva Schlotheuber, Almut Suerbaum, and Geert Warnar.

Author : Saint Francis (of Assisi)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : OCLC:909239817

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Late Medieval Mysticism by Saint Francis (of Assisi) Pdf

Author : Louise Nelstrop,Helen Appleton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351765145

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Art and Mysticism by Louise Nelstrop,Helen Appleton Pdf

From the visual and textual art of Anglo-Saxon England onwards, images held a surprising power in the Western Christian tradition. Not only did these artistic representations provide images through which to find God, they also held mystical potential, and likewise mystical writing, from the early medieval period onwards, is also filled with images of God that likewise refracts and reflects His glory. This collection of essays introduces the currents of thought and practice that underpin this artistic engagement with Western Christian mysticism, and explores the continued link between art and theology. The book features contributions from an international panel of leading academics, and is divided into four sections. The first section offers theoretical and philosophical considerations of mystical aesthetics and the interplay between mysticism and art. The final three sections investigate this interplay between the arts and mysticism from three key vantage points. The purpose of the volume is to explore this rarely considered yet crucial interface between art and mysticism. It is therefore an important and illuminating collection of scholarship that will appeal to scholars of theology and Christian mysticism as much as those who study literature, the arts and art history.

Author : Mary A. Suydam,Joanna E. Ziegler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Feminist theology
ISBN : 0333749138

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Performance and Transformation by Mary A. Suydam,Joanna E. Ziegler Pdf

This is a volume of essays that pushes the frontiers of interpretation on mystical and ecstatic writings of the later Middle Ages to explore them as particular performances. The contributors examine mysticism and spirituality from multiple performance perspectives: dramatic, kinesthetic, linguistic, and spatial. Emerging from work on ritual, performance, mysticism, and the body, the authors offer ways of analyzing these performances and their construction through questioning the various modes through which they were conveyed. Performance perspectives reveal women's public leadership roles within their communities, the nature of devotional reading and authoring in manuscript cultures, and women's roles in developing and performing rituals and texts that would transform future generations.

Author : Marion Glasscoe
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859915581

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The Medieval Mystical Tradition by Marion Glasscoe Pdf

Interdisciplinary studies on medieval mystics and their cultural background.

Author : Edward Alexander Jones
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843843405

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The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England by Edward Alexander Jones Pdf

The series has from the beginning been instrumental in sustaining this field of study. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY Mystical writing flourished between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries across Europe and in England, and had a wide influence on religion and spirituality. This volume examines a range of topics within the field. The five "Middle English Mystics" (Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, the author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe) receive renewed attention, with significant new insights generated by fresh theoretical approaches. In addition, there are studies of the relationships between continental and English mystical authors, introductions to some less well-known writers in the tradition (such as the Monk of Farne), and explorations around the fringes of the mystical canon, including Middle English translations of Boethius, Lollard spirituality, and the Syon brother Richard Whytford's writings for a sixteenth-century "mixed life" audience. E. A. Jones is Senior Lecturer in English Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter. Contributors: Christine Cooper-Rompato, Vincent Gillespie, C. Annette Grisé, Ian Johnson, Sarah Macmillan, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Nicole R. Rice, Maggie Ross, Steven Rozenski Jr, David Russell, Michael G. Sargent, Christiana Whitehead.

Author : Dee Dyas,Valerie Edden,Roger Ellis
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 1843840499

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Approaching Medieval English Anchoritic and Mystical Texts by Dee Dyas,Valerie Edden,Roger Ellis Pdf

Essays suggesting new ways of studying the crucial but sometimes difficult range of medieval mystical material. This volume seeks to explore the origins, context and content of the anchoritic and mystical texts produced in England during the Middle Ages and to examine the ways in which these texts may be studied and taught today. It foregrounds issues of context and interaction, seeking both to position medieval spiritual writings against a surprisingly wide range of contemporary contexts and to face the challenge of making these texts accessible to a wider readership. The contributions, by leading scholars in the field, incorporate historical, literary and theological perspectives and offer critical approaches and background material which will inform both research and teaching. The approaches to Middle English anchoritic and mystical texts suggested in this volume are many and varied. In this they reflect the richness and complexity of the contexts from which these writings emerged. These essays are offered aspart of an ongoing exploration of aspects of medieval spirituality which, while posing a considerable challenge to modern readers, also offer invaluable insights into the interaction between medieval culture and belief. Contributors: E.A. Jones, Dee Dyas, Valerie Edden, Santha Bhattachariji, Denis Renevey, A.C. Spearing, Thomas Bestul, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Barry A. Windeatt, Alexandra Barratt, R.S. Allen, Roger Ellis, Ann M. Hutchison, Marion Glasscoe, Catherine Innes-Parker

Author : Paul E. Szarmach
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1985-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438421711

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Introduction to the Medieval Mystics of Europe by Paul E. Szarmach Pdf

The European Middle Ages bequeathed to the world a legacy of spiritual and intellectual brilliance that has shaped many of the ideals, preconceptions, and institutions we now take for granted. An Introduction to the Medieval Mystics of Europe examines this phenomenon in vivid and scholarly accounts of the lives and achievements of those men and women whose genius most inspired their own and subsequent ages. These great mystics explored and consciously realized the relationship between human life and unconditioned transcendence. Representing both the contemplative and scholastic traditions, the mystics in these studies often found their solutions to ultimate questions in radically different ways. Some of them, such as Eckhart, Aquinas, and Cusa, may already be familiar, and here the reader will benefit from a new approach and summary of extensive research. Others, such as Smaragdus and several of the women mystics, are little known even to specialists. Finally, and unusually for a study of European mysticism, the influence of Spanish Kabbalists is discussed in relation to the Zohar and two figures from the mystical school of Safed, Cordovero and Luria. Though the essays focus on individuals, the cultural and social implications of their lives and work are never ignored, for the mystic way did not exist separately from the rest of medieval life; it functioned as an integral part of the whole, influencing the development of Christian and Jewish religions in both their internal and external forms.

Author : Denise Louise Despres
Publisher : Pilgrim Books (OK)
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015018509870

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Ghostly Sights by Denise Louise Despres Pdf