Body and Soul

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

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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 of different literary theories. Surveying various styles of hagiographical writing, the author offers ground-breaking scholarship on a broad range of topics such as how medievalholy women may have appeared to their contemporaries, medieval antifeminism, comparisons between earlier and later Christian mystical writing, the relationship between male confessors and female penitentsin 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 fascinating field of literature.

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Utgivningsdatum1994-04-14
Vikt370 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagOxford University Press Inc
ISBN9780195084559

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I. Backgrounds1: Women and Mysticism in the Medieval World2: Unmasking Women: Medieval Responses to the Unknowability of the Lady3: A New Feminine Spirituality: The Beguines and Their Writings in Medieval Europe4: A Medieval Woman's Utopian Vision: The Rule of St. Clare of AssisiII. The Tradition of Holy Women: Change and Continuity5: Eloquence and Heroic Virginity in Hrotsvit's Verse Legends6: Transforming the World: The Serpent-Dragon and the Virgin Saint7: "She Seemed to Have Come from the Desert": Italian Women Saints and the Vitae Patrum CycleIII. Women Mystics and the Acquisition of Authority8: Male Confessors and Female Penitents: Possibilities for Dialogue9: The Rhetoric of Transgression in the Lives of Italian Women Saints10: Gender, Knowledge, and Power in Hadewijch Strophische Gedichten11: Writing the Body: Male and Female in the Writings of Marguerite d'Oingt, Angela of Foligno, and Umilta of FaenzaIndex

Elizabeth Avilda Petroff admirably fulfils the apparently disparate aims she sets herself: to provide an advanced introduction for general readers to the women mystics of the later Middle Ages, and simultaneously to produce theoretically informed new readings for specialists ... her work is full of unexpected and illuminating juxtapositions ... She has a rare feeling for narrative, summarizing and retelling with flair; and she is a methodical close reader, attentive to style, who lays out the process of her own judgements. She is also a good historian. David Lawton, Medium Aevum, LXV.1