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From virile woman to womanChrist : studies in medieval religion and literature /

Why did hagiographers of the late Middle Ages praise mothers for abandoning small children? How did a group of female mystics come to define themselves as "apostles to the dead" and end by challenging God's right to damn? Why did certain heretics around 1300 venerate a woman as the Ho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Newman, Barbara, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1995.
Colección:Middle Ages series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Flaws in the Golden Bowl: gender and spiritual formation in the twelfth century
  • Authority, authenticity, and the repression of Heloise
  • "Crueel Corage": Child sacrifice and the maternal martyr in hagiography and romance
  • On the threshold of the dead: Purgatory, hell, and religious women
  • La mystique courtoise: Thirteenth-century beguines and the art of love
  • Hadewijch and Abelard
  • Gnostics, free spirits, and "Meister Eckhart's daughter"
  • WomanSpirit, woman Pope
  • Renaissance feminism and esoteric theology: The case of Cornelius Agrippa.