Promised bodies : time, language, and corporeality in Medieval women's mystical texts /

In Christianity, the body is a potentially transformative vehicle, and the writings of Hadewijch of Brabant, a thirteenth-century beguine, engage with this tradition in ways both singular to her mysticism and indicative of her theological milieu. This study links the embodied poetics of Hadewijch�...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dailey, Patricia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.
Colección:Gender, theory, and religion.
Temas:
600-1500
Mysticism > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Women mystics.
Christian literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Mysticisme > Histoire > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Femmes mystiques.
mystics.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Feminist.
RELIGION > Christian Life > General.
Mysticism > Middle Ages.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Children of Promise, Children of the Flesh: Augustine's Two Bodies; 2. The Mystic's Two Bodies: The Temporal and Material Poetics of Visionary Texts; 3. Werke and the the Postscriptum of the Soul; 4. Living Song: Dwelling in Hadewijch's Liederen; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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