The Secret Within : Hermits, Recluses, and Spiritual Outsiders in Medieval England /
Spiritual seekers throughout history have sought illumination through solitary contemplation. In the Christian tradition, medieval England stands out for its remarkable array of hermits, recluses, and spiritual outsiders, from Cuthbert Godric of Fichale and Christina of Markyate to Richard Rolle, Ju...
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Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2014.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The development of eremitical mysticism in the British Isles
- Early Cistercian theology in England
- Ancrene wisse : a magnificent exemplar of early English mysticism
- "Female" versus "male" spirituality : a talking of the love of God and the meditations of the Monk of Farne
- Richard Rolle of Hampole : England's first great mystic
- Marguerite Porete's Mirror of simple souls and its reception in England
- The cloud of unknowing and related tracts
- Walter Hilton : England's mystic theologian
- The singular vision of Julian of Norwich
- Margery Kempe : the shocking "fool in Christ"
- Some aspects of popularizing mysticism in late medieval England.