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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Newman, Barbara, 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1995.
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
600-1500
Women in Christianity > History.
Women in literature > History.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Middle Ages.
Femmes dans le christianisme > Histoire.
Femmes dans la littérature > Histoire.
Littérature médiévale > Histoire et critique.
Église > Histoire > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Moyen Âge.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Church history > Middle Ages
Literature, Medieval
Middle Ages
Women in Christianity
Women in literature
Frauenmystik
Christentum
Frau
Christendom.
Vrouwen.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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