Poetry Of Hadewijch

Author : Hadewijch,Marieke J. E. H. T. van Baest
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Love poetry
ISBN : 9042906677

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Poetry of Hadewijch by Hadewijch,Marieke J. E. H. T. van Baest Pdf

The Stanzaic Poems, written by Hadewijch of Antwerp in the 13th century, are a body of 45 lyrical poems in stanzas. They are daring God-talk in the guise of courtly love songs. Hadewijch uses the linguistic style of chivalry but her poems are by no means courtly poetry. She shifts the current meaning of chivalry by transferring its context to a field of meaning focused on God. Because of the view of Minne (=love) that is embodied in them, the Stanzaic Poems are an exponent of the age old tradition of women's songs - of which the Song of Songs is the best known example - and as such they are an expression of a particular manner of keeping company with God: they celebrate a relationship of mutuality between partners equivalent in love. An introductory essay highlights some of the striking points of lovers: the raging desire of 'orewoet': the gentility of humankind's origin. This essay is followed by a rendering of the Stanzaic Poems from Middle-Dutch into Modern English prose. With an introduction by Edward Schillebeeckx.

Author : Hadewijch
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0809122979

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The Complete Works by Hadewijch Pdf

Hadewijch, a Flemish Beguine of the 13th century, is undoubtedly the most important exponent of love mysticism and one of the loftiest figures in the western mystical tradition.

Author : Tanis M. Guest
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789401576161

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Some Aspects of Hadewijch’s Poetic form in the ‘Strofische Gedichten’ by Tanis M. Guest Pdf

Author : Ivan Granger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0985467932

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The Longing in Between by Ivan Granger Pdf

A delightful collection of soul-inspiring poems from the world's great religious and spiritual traditions, accompanied by Ivan M. Granger's meditative thoughts and commentary. Rumi, Whitman, Issa, Teresa of Avila, Dickinson, Blake, Lalla, and many others. These are poems of seeking and awakening... and the longing in between. ------------ Praise for The Longing in Between "The Longing in Between is a work of sheer beauty. Many of the selected poems are not widely known, and Ivan M. Granger has done a great service, not only by bringing them to public attention, but by opening their deeper meaning with his own rare poetic and mystic sensibility." ROGER HOUSDEN author of the best-selling Ten Poems to Change Your Life series "Ivan M. Granger's new anthology, The Longing in Between, gives us a unique collection of profoundly moving poetry. It presents some of the choicest fruit from the flowering of mystics across time, across traditions and from around the world. After each of the poems in this anthology Ivan M. Granger shares his reflections and contemplations, inviting the reader to new and deeper views of the Divine Presence. This is a grace-filled collection which the reader will gladly return to over and over again." LAWRENCE EDWARDS, Ph.D. author of Awakening Kundalini: The Path to Radical Freedom and Kali's Bazaar

Author : Susan Signe-Morrison
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781785700804

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A Medieval Woman's Companion by Susan Signe-Morrison Pdf

What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuous virgins, marvelous maidens, and fierce feminists of the Middle Ages who trail-blazed paths for women today. Without those first courageous souls who worked in fields dominated by men, women might not have the presence they currently do in professions such as education, the law, and literature. Focusing on women from Western Europe between c. 300 and 1500 CE in the medieval period and richly carpeted with detail, A Medieval Woman’s Companion offers a wealth of information about real medieval women who are now considered vital for understanding the Middle Ages in a full and nuanced way. Short biographies of 20 medieval women illustrate how they have anticipated and shaped current concerns, including access to education; creative emotional outlets such as art, theater, romantic fiction, and music; marriage and marital rights; fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, contraception and gynecology; sex trafficking and sexual violence; the balance of work and family; faith; and disability. Their legacy abides until today in attitudes to contemporary women that have their roots in the medieval period. The final chapter suggests how 20th and 21st century feminist and gender theories can be applied to and complicated by medieval women's lives and writings. Doubly marginalized due to gender and the remoteness of the time period, medieval women’s accomplishments are acknowledged and presented in a way that readers can appreciate and find inspiring. Ideal for high school and college classroom use in courses ranging from history and literature to women's and gender studies, an accompanying website with educational links, images, downloadable curriculum guide, and interactive blog will be made available at the time of publication.

Author : Patricia Dailey
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231535526

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Promised Bodies by Patricia Dailey Pdf

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 : Hadewijch,Marieke van Baest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9039000581

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Poetry of Hadewych by Hadewijch,Marieke van Baest Pdf

Author : Paul Mommaers,Anikó Daróczi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : 9042930284

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Hadewijch. the Complete Letters by Paul Mommaers,Anikó Daróczi Pdf

Hadewijch, a Flemish beguine, who lived and wrote somewhere in Brabant during the thirteenth century, has brought mystical literature as a whole to its highest point. Hadewijch's teaching is most accessible in her Letters, as there it is cast in a mould that succeeds in touching the senses as well as the mind. In her text, oral and written culture combine to form an organic unity: when Hadewijch writes, she not only builds sentences with words but composes sounds as well. In these mystical texts, minne ("love") is pivotal as regards both form and content -- a distinction which Hadewijch largely overrides. As regards form, minne serves as a catchword which occurs everywhere, again and again, drawing together different parts and sections. As regards content, minne is the key to the mystical experience evoked by Hadewijch and refers as much to the person who lives the mystical union (along with the content of this feeling), as to the way in which this union makes itself felt. This edition of Hadewijch's Letters includes the text of the 31 letters. The English text is not intended to be a word-for-word translation from the Middle Dutch, though it tries to keep closely to the original. Hadewijch's own words, phrases and turns of phrase are transposed into the English text, especially when these are repeated and do not become a stumbling block for the present-day reader. There is a commentary to each Letter. However, the purpose in each case is not to accumulate the erudition of specialists or to comment on different interpretations. The aim is to encourage a slow and loving reading of the text itself, while trying to avoid any ready-made summary of what Hadewijch "has to say". This edition also offers a new, sound-based lay-out of the text which is intended to assist an appreciation of the creativity of this gifted writer whose words and phrasing literally make music.

Author : Jane Hirshfield
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019837116

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The Lives of the Heart by Jane Hirshfield Pdf

Jane Hirshfield, the award-winning author of THE OCTOBER PALACE and editor of WOMEN IN PRAISE OF THE SACRED, presents a scintillating new volume of poems to be published to coincide with the hardcover release of NINE GATES, the author's primer on the reading and writing of poetry.

Author : Eliot Weinberger
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780811229876

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Angels & Saints by Eliot Weinberger Pdf

A gorgeously illustrated co-publication with Christine Burgin by “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times). With a guide to the illustrations by Mary Wellesley. Angels have soared through Western culture and consciousness from Biblical to contemporary times. But what do we really know about these celestial beings? Where do they come from, what are they made of, how do they communicate and perceive? The celebrated essayist Eliot Weinberger has mined and deconstructed, resurrected and distilled centuries of theology into an awe-inspiring exploration of the heavenly host. From a litany of angelic voices, Weinberger’s lyrical meditation then turns to the earthly counterparts, the saints, their lives retold in a series of vibrant and playful capsule biographies, followed by a glimpse of the afterlife. Threaded throughout Angels & Saints are the glorious illuminated grid poems by the eighteenth-century Benedictine monk Hrabanus Maurus. These astonishingly complex, proto-“concrete” poems are untangled in a lucid afterword by the medieval scholar and historian Mary Wellesley.

Author : Aliki Barnstone
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015042597826

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Voices of Light by Aliki Barnstone Pdf

Though often deprived of public position, women have long practiced the personal art of writing and so have been prepared to be our spiritual and visionary voices of light."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Fiona Bowie
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034372461

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Beguine Spirituality by Fiona Bowie Pdf

Author : Douglas E. Christie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : 9780190885168

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The Insurmountable Darkness of Love by Douglas E. Christie Pdf

This text is a reflection on the meaning of spiritual darkness - especially those difficult places in human experience where meaning seems to elude us, where we are emptied out and are compelled to dig deeper into who we truly are. Douglas E. Christie takes up this facet of experience, in ordinary human experience, but also in relation to the Christian contemplative and mystical traditions, where such experience is often understood to be both painful and transformative, allowing the mind and heart to open in love.

Author : Roger Housden
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781458753083

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For Lovers of God Everywhere by Roger Housden Pdf

Roger Housden, author of the best-selling Ten Poems to Change Your Life, celebrates the growing popularity of mystical poetry with this beautiful compilation from the Christian contemplative tradition. Although the writings of the Sufi mystics (Rumi and Hafez) and the Indian mystics (Mirabai and Kabir) have reached a wide audience in recent years, the poetry of the Christian mystics has yet to be discovered by a general audience. For Lovers of God Everywhere, a collection of nearly 100 poems from both historic and contemporary writers, heralds the reemergence of the great spiritual voices of the Christian tradition - a tradition with its own love songs to God, cries of longing, and bliss of union. In this collection, Roger introduces us to some of the foremost poets of both the Eastern and Western Christian traditions. He takes us from the wisdom of the Desert Fathers to the passion of St. Augustine, through the medieval ecstasies of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Catherine of Siena, to the subtleties of St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila; and on to contemporary voices such as Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, and Mary Oliver. Roger's insightful commentary on each poem inspires us to take its words more deeply into our souls and shows how the mystical tradition transcends sectarian divides and speaks to the heart of humanity.

Author : Aliki Barnstone,Willis Barnstone
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992-04-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780805209976

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A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now by Aliki Barnstone,Willis Barnstone Pdf

A monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now is an invaluable collection. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This revised edition includes a newly expanded section of American poets from the colonial era to the present. "[A] splendid collection of verse by women" (TIME) throughout the ages and around the world; now revised and expanded, with 38 American poets.