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Author : Emilie Zum Brunn,Georgette Epiney-Burgard
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076001056287
This text revives the works of five powerful mystics of the Middle Ages and provides a valuable inspirational resource for all spiritual seekers.
Author : Elizabeth Ruth Obbard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : 1565481577
Selected spiritual wiritings from 4 medieval women who have strongly impacted Christian spirituality and theology.
Author : Monica Furlong
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781570623141
The women mystics of medieval Europe represent the very first feminine voices heard in a world where women were nearly silent. As such, they are striking and unusual, strange, powerful and urgent. Monica Furlong uses key selections from among these women's own writings and writings about them by their contemporaries, along with her own assessment of them, to open up their contributions to a wide popular audience. The eleven women represented in this anthology were housewives, visionaries, abbesses, beguines, recluses, and nuns who wrote between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. They include: • Héloise, the scholar and abbess, whose letters to Abelard are treasure of medieval literature • Hildegard of Bingen, the visionary Rhineland nun • Clare of Assisi, the close friend of Saint Francis and founder of the Poor Clares • Catherine of Siena, an influential spiritual counselor whose book, Dialogue, consists of a debate between herself and God • Julian of Norwich, the English hermitess who spent the greater part of her life meditating on and coming to understand the striking visions she received as a young woman • and many others
Author : Ulrike Wiethaus
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 081562560X
This work offers interdisciplinary perspectives by women scholars on the diverse cultural contributions of medieval women mystics.
Author : Rosemary Radford Ruether
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506488516
In Visionary Women, influential feminist theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether glimpses into the souls of three medieval mystics. Hildegard of Bingen, a self-taught theologian who developed a mystical secret language used in her community of mystics, became a traveling preacher and author. At the age of forty, Mechthild of Magdeburg was commanded by God to write down her visions, which resulted in seven books. Julian of Norwich prayed as a young child that she would see Christ's passion, that she would get deathly ill, and that she would long for God--all in her desire to focus her life solely on God--and He answered all three. Ruether describes the women as prophets with a God-given message for the church and society of their time. Her sympathetic overview evokes the new religious horizons they envisioned for Christianity. She discusses the three women's beliefs about God, theology, and their identity. Though they faced adversity, they challenged these notions as bold women in the faith, secure in their strong relationship with God. Visionary Women is an adaption from Ruether's award-winning book, Women and Redemption: A Theological History. Readers will join in the long tradition of keeping the mystics' messages alive and relevant.
Author : Elizabeth Petroff
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0195084551
Opening a window onto a long-neglected world of women's experience, this text features eleven essays that examine the writings of medieval women mystics from England, France, Germany, Italy, and the Low Countries, providing close readings of a number of important texts from the viewpoint ofdifferent literary theories. Surveying various styles of hagiographical writing, the author offers ground-breaking scholarship on a broad range of topics such as how medieval holy women may have appeared to their contemporaries, medieval antifeminism, comparisons between earlier and later Christianmystical writing, the relationship between male confessors and female penitents in the Middle Ages, and the process by which these extraordinary women produced their work. For courses in religious, medieval, or women's studies, this unique text fills a conspicuous gap in an important and fascinatingfield of literature.
Author : Emilie Zum Brunn,Georgette Epiney-Burgard
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : MINN:31951002474255A
"WOMEN MYSTICS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE revives the exquisite mystical literature of five powerful mystics of the Middle Ages: a Benedictine Abbess, a Cisterian Prioress, and three Beguines. The lost story of feminine Christianity is here enriched for the first time by the historical context of each woman's life and her fresh literary expression of spiritual reality. Hildegard of Bingen, Hadewijch of Antwerp, Beatrice of Nazareth, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete were acknowledged handmaidens of God's prophetic spirit. Their teaching, solidly based in theological and metaphysical culture, was even thought superior to that of the scholastic doctors of the time. ...an important work of reference for Christians and spiritual seekers as well as an inspirational resource for those who aspire to 'see without intermediary what God is.'" -- page 4 of cover.
Author : Monica Furlong
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : 0264673859
An anthology of women's writings drawn from the 12th century to the 14th century, this collection includes letters, hymns, practical advice, rules for nuns, accounts of visions and revelations, prayers, dialogues and autobiographical writings. Each woman mystic is introduced separately, and the diverse material shows both the intelligence, originality and profound devotion of the women authors, and how their position as women affected their work.
Author : Emily A. Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Incarnation
ISBN : 1602587531
Flesh Made Word is a fresh, inclusive theology of the incarnation.
Author : Patricia Dailey
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231535526
In the Christian tradition, especially in the works of Paul, Augustine, and the exegetes of the Middle Ages, the body is a twofold entity consisting of inner and outer persons that promises to find its true materiality in a time to come. A potentially transformative vehicle, it is a dynamic mirror that can reflect the work of the divine within and substantially alter its own materiality if receptive to divine grace. The writings of Hadewijch of Brabant, a thirteenth-century beguine, engage with this tradition in sophisticated ways both singular to her mysticism and indicative of the theological milieu of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Crossing linguistic and historical boundaries, Patricia Dailey connects the embodied poetics of Hadewijch's visions, writings, and letters to the work of Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, Marguerite of Oingt, and other mystics and visionaries. She establishes new criteria to more consistently understand and assess the singularity of women's mystical texts and, by underscoring the similarities between men's and women's writings of the time, collapses traditional conceptions of gender as they relate to differences in style, language, interpretative practices, forms of literacy, and uses of textuality.
Author : Frances Beer
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851153438
Original and thought-provoking study of three medieval women mystics based on writings and biographical material.
Author : Elizabeth Ruth Obbard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1565482786
While women's contribution to spirituality has often been overlooked or minimized in the past, there is a vital and growing interest in it today. Essential reading for anyone interested in medieval and/or women's spirituality and church history.
Author : Carolyn Dinshaw,David Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521796385
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or expand their lives. The first section investigates the roles traditionally assigned to medieval women (as virgins, widows, and wives); it also considers female childhood and relations between women. The second section explores social spaces, including textuality itself: for every surviving medieval manuscript bespeaks collaborative effort. It considers women as authors, as anchoresses 'dead to the world', and as preachers and teachers in the world staking claims to authority without entering a pulpit. The final section considers the lives and writings of remarkable women, including Marie de France, Heloise, Joan of Arc, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and female lyricists and romancers whose names are lost, but whose texts survive.
Author : Sharon Faye Koren
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611680225
A fascinating analysis of why there are no female mystics in medieval Judaism
Author : Caroline Walker Bynum
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1988-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520908789
In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to the Christian eucharist, supernatural multiplications of food and drink, and miracles of bodily manipulation, including stigmata and inedia (living without eating). The occurrence of such phenomena sheds much light on the nature of medieval society and medieval religion. It also forms a chapter in the history of women. Previous scholars have occasionally noted the various phenomena in isolation from each other and have sometimes applied modern medical or psychological theories to them. Using materials based on saints' lives and the religious and mystical writings of medieval women and men, Caroline Walker Bynum uncovers the pattern lying behind these aspects of women's religiosity and behind the fascination men and women felt for such miracles and devotional practices. She argues that food lies at the heart of much of women's piety. Women renounced ordinary food through fasting in order to prepare for receiving extraordinary food in the eucharist. They also offered themselves as food in miracles of feeding and bodily manipulation. Providing both functionalist and phenomenological explanations, Bynum explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. She also describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men meant when they too associated women with food and flesh. The author's interpretation of women's piety offers a new view of the nature of medieval asceticism and, drawing upon both anthropology and feminist theory, she illuminates the distinctive features of women's use of symbols. Rejecting presentist interpretations of women as exploited or masochistic, she shows the power and creativity of women's writing and women's lives.
