Promised Bodies : Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women's Mystical Texts /
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 t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Gender, Theory, and Religion
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- 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 Postscriptum of the Soul
- 4. Living Song: Dwelling in Hadewijch'S Liederen
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index