[PDF] Women Mystics In Medieval Europe eBook

Author : Emilie Zum Brunn
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,85 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN :

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This text revives the works of five powerful mystics of the Middle Ages and provides a valuable inspirational resource for all spiritual seekers.

Author : Frances Beer
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0851153437

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Original and thought-provoking study of three medieval women mystics based on writings and biographical material.

Author : Monica Furlong
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 1997-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0834829304

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The women mystics of medieval Europe represent the very first feminine voices heard in a world where women were nearly silent. As such, they are striking and unusual, strange, powerful and urgent. Monica Furlong uses key selections from among these women's own writings and writings about them by their contemporaries, along with her own assessment of them, to open up their contributions to a wide popular audience. The eleven women represented in this anthology were housewives, visionaries, abbesses, beguines, recluses, and nuns who wrote between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. They include: • Héloïse, the scholar and abbess, whose letters to Abelard are treasure of medieval literature • Hildegard of Bingen, the visionary Rhineland nun • Clare of Assisi, the close friend of Saint Francis and founder of the Poor Clares • Catherine of Siena, an influential spiritual counselor whose book, Dialogue, consists of a debate between herself and God • Julian of Norwich, the English hermitess who spent the greater part of her life meditating on and coming to understand the striking visions she received as a young woman • and many others

Author : Rosemary Radford Ruether
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780800634483

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The author, a feminist theologist, discusses the range and complexity of female imagery in the work of the three medieval mystics Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), Mechtild of Magdeburg (1210-1283), and Julian of Norwich (1342-?). -- Provided by publisher.

Author : Caroline Walker Bynum
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 1988-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0520908783

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In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to the Christian eucharist, supernatural multiplications of food and drink, and miracles of bodily manipulation, including stigmata and inedia (living without eating). The occurrence of such phenomena sheds much light on the nature of medieval society and medieval religion. It also forms a chapter in the history of women. Previous scholars have occasionally noted the various phenomena in isolation from each other and have sometimes applied modern medical or psychological theories to them. Using materials based on saints' lives and the religious and mystical writings of medieval women and men, Caroline Walker Bynum uncovers the pattern lying behind these aspects of women's religiosity and behind the fascination men and women felt for such miracles and devotional practices. She argues that food lies at the heart of much of women's piety. Women renounced ordinary food through fasting in order to prepare for receiving extraordinary food in the eucharist. They also offered themselves as food in miracles of feeding and bodily manipulation. Providing both functionalist and phenomenological explanations, Bynum explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. She also describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men meant when they too associated women with food and flesh. The author's interpretation of women's piety offers a new view of the nature of medieval asceticism and, drawing upon both anthropology and feminist theory, she illuminates the distinctive features of women's use of symbols. Rejecting presentist interpretations of women as exploited or masochistic, she shows the power and creativity of women's writing and women's lives.

Author : Kristin Norget
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520963369

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Aimed at a wide audience of readers, The Anthropology of Catholicism is the first companion guide to this burgeoning field within the anthropology of Christianity. Bringing to light Catholicism’s long but comparatively ignored presence within the discipline of anthropology, the book introduces readers to key studies in the field, as well as to current analyses on the present and possible futures of Catholicism globally. This reader provides both ethnographic material and theoretical reflections on Catholicism around the world, demonstrating how a revised anthropology of Catholicism can generate new insights and analytical frameworks that will impact anthropology as well as other disciplines.

Author : Carolyn Dinshaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 28,30 MB
Release : 2003-05-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780521796385

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or expand their lives. The first section investigates the roles traditionally assigned to medieval women (as virgins, widows, and wives); it also considers female childhood and relations between women. The second section explores social spaces, including textuality itself: for every surviving medieval manuscript bespeaks collaborative effort. It considers women as authors, as anchoresses 'dead to the world', and as preachers and teachers in the world staking claims to authority without entering a pulpit. The final section considers the lives and writings of remarkable women, including Marie de France, Heloise, Joan of Arc, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and female lyricists and romancers whose names are lost, but whose texts survive.

Author : Ulrike Wiethaus
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 1993-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780815625605

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This work offers interdisciplinary perspectives by women scholars on the diverse cultural contributions of medieval women mystics.