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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©1995.
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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.