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Ruusbroec : literature and mysticism in the fourteenth century /

Jan van Ruusbroec (1293-1381), the most influential medieval Dutch author, is generally acknowledged to be one of the key figures in the tradition of Christian mysticism. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of Ruusbroec's oeuvre within the social, religious and literary frameworks of the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Warnar, Geert, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Dutch
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Colección:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 150.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : contested wisdom
  • Brussels. Ancestry and inwardness ; Lessons and liturgy ; Years of silence ; "The first book he made"
  • The Espousals. Bloemardinne and Beguine mysticism ; A chaplain at the Church of St Gudula ; The Espousals in context ; Masterpiece
  • "This author is called Jan van Ruusbroec". Inspired authorship ; Guide to Gottesfreunde ; Heretics and clerics ; Conversation with a hermit
  • Groenendaal. Farewell to Brussels ; Priests in the forest ; The exposition of the tabernacle ; Jan van Leeuwen and the lay brothers
  • The good prior. Scholars in Groenendaal ; The letters, the baroness and the Convent of Rich Clares ; Ruusbroec's women ; Highest truth
  • A clearly enlightened man. Ruusbroec's latter years ; De numero et ordine suorum voluminum ; Epilogue from Eemstein ; Fireworks and feasting.