| Description |
1 online resource (277 pages). |
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| Series |
Gender, Theory, and Religion
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Gender, theory, and religion.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Children of Promise, Children of the Flesh: Augustine's Two Bodies; 2. The Mystic's Two Bodies: The Temporal and Material Poetics of Visionary Texts; 3. Werke and the the Postscriptum of the Soul; 4. Living Song: Dwelling in Hadewijch's Liederen; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
In Christianity, the body is a potentially transformative vehicle, and the writings of Hadewijch of Brabant, a thirteenth-century beguine, engage with this tradition in ways both singular to her mysticism and indicative of her theological milieu. This study links the embodied poetics of Hadewijch's visions and letters to the work of such mystics and visionaries as Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, and Marguerite of Oingt. It introduces new criteria for re-assessing the style, language, interpretative practices, forms of literacy, and uses of textuality in women's mystical texts.</DI. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Mysticism -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Women mystics.
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Women mystics. |
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Christian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Christian literature. |
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Women authors. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dailey, Patricia. Promised Bodies : Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women's Mystical Texts. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2013 9780231161206 |
| ISBN |
9780231535526 (electronic book) |
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023153552X (electronic book) |
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