Proving Woman : Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages /

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Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's most sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. Holy women's claims to be in direct communication with God placed them in positions of unprecedented influence. Yet by the end of the Middle Ag...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Elliott, Dyan, 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Inquisition.
Heresy > History > To 1500.
Women mystics > Europe.
Mysticism > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Women > Religious life > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Sacramental confession as proof of orthodoxy
  • pt. 1. Women as proof of orthodoxy. The Beguines: a sponsored emergence
  • Elisabeth of Hungary: between men
  • pt. 2. Inquisitions and proof. Sanctity, heresy, and inquisition
  • Between two deaths: the living mystic
  • pt. 3. The discernment of spirits. Clerical quibbles
  • John Gerson and Joan of Arc.

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