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Author : Emilie Zum Brunn,Georgette Epiney-Burgard
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Emilie Zum Brunn,Georgette Epiney-Burgard
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Emilie Zum Brunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : OCLC:1374304057
Author : Frances Beer
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851153438
Original and thought-provoking study of three medieval women mystics based on writings and biographical material.
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 : Monica Furlong
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Ulrike Wiethaus
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Andrea Janelle Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 075562498X
"The Middle Ages saw a flourishing of mysticism that was astonishing for its richness and distinctiveness. The medieval period was unlike any other period of Christianity in producing people who frequently claimed visions of Christ and Mary, uttered prophecies, gave voice to ecstatic experiences, recited poems and songs said to emanate directly from God and changed their ways of life as a result of these special revelations. Many recipients of these alleged divine gifts were women. Yet the female contribution to western Europe's intellectual and religious development is still not well understood. Popular or lay religion has been overshadowed by academic theology, which was predominantly the theology of men. This timely book rectifies the neglect by examining a number of women whose lives exemplify traditions which were central to medieval theology but whose contributions have tended to be dismissed as 'merely spiritual' by today's scholars. In their different ways, visionaries like Richeldis de Faverches (founder of the Holy House at Walsingham, or 'England's Nazareth'), the learned Hildegard of Bingen, Hadewijch of Brabant (exemplary voice of the Beguine tradition of love mysticism), charismatic traveller and pilgrim Margery Kempe and anchoress Julian of Norwich all challenged traditional male scholastic theology. Designed for the use of undergraduate student and general reader alike, this attractive survey provides an introduction to thirteen remarkable women and sets their ideas in context."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Author : Elizabeth Ruth Obbard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Caroline Walker Bynum
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,7 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.
Author : Kristin Norget
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520963368
Aimed at a wide audience of readers, The Anthropology of Catholicism is the first companion guide to this burgeoning field within the anthropology of Christianity. Bringing to light Catholicism’s long but comparatively ignored presence within the discipline of anthropology, the book introduces readers to key studies in the field, as well as to current analyses on the present and possible futures of Catholicism globally. This reader provides both ethnographic material and theoretical reflections on Catholicism around the world, demonstrating how a revised anthropology of Catholicism can generate new insights and analytical frameworks that will impact anthropology as well as other disciplines.
Author : Jennifer Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317888598
Women in Medieval Europe were expected to be submissive, but such a broad picture ignores great areas of female experience. Between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, women are found in the workplace as well as the home, and some women were numbered among the key rulers, saints and mystics of the medieval world. Opportunities and activities changed over time, and by 1500 the world of work was becoming increasingly restricted for women. Women of all social groups were primarily engaged with their families, looking after husband and children, and running the household. Patterns of work varied geographically. In the northern towns, women engaged in a wide range of crafts, with a small number becoming entrepreneurs. Many of the poor made a living as servants and labourers. Prostitution flourished in many medieval towns. Some women turned to the religious life, and here opportunities burgeoned in the thirteenth century. The Middle Ages are not remote from the twenty-first century; the lives of medieval women evoke a response today. The medieval mother faced similar problems to her modern counterpart. The sheer variety of women’s experience in the later Middle Ages is fully brought out in this book.
Author : Carolyn Dinshaw,David Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
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 : Margaret Schaus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415969444
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Author : Christine Sciacca
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606065266
When one thinks of women in the Middle Ages, the images that often come to mind are those of damsels in distress, mystics in convents, female laborers in the field, and even women of ill repute. In reality, however, medieval conceptions of womanhood were multifaceted, and women’s roles were varied and nuanced. Female stereotypes existed in the medieval world, but so too did women of power and influence. The pages of illuminated manuscripts reveal to us the many facets of medieval womanhood and slices of medieval life—from preoccupations with biblical heroines and saints to courtship, childbirth, and motherhood. While men dominated artistic production, this volume demonstrates the ways in which female artists, authors, and patrons were instrumental in the creation of illuminated manuscripts. Featuring over one hundred illuminations depicting medieval women from England to Ethiopia, this book provides a lively and accessible introduction to the lives of women in the medieval world.