Women Mystic Writers
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Women Mystics In Medieval Europe
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Author : Emilie Zum Brunn
language : en
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
Release Date : 1989
Women Mystics In Medieval Europe written by Emilie Zum Brunn and has been published by Paragon House Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
"WOMEN MYSTICS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE revives the exquisite mystical literature of five powerful mystics of the Middle Ages: a Benedictine Abbess, a Cisterian Prioress, and three Beguines. The lost story of feminine Christianity is here enriched for the first time by the historical context of each woman's life and her fresh literary expression of spiritual reality. Hildegard of Bingen, Hadewijch of Antwerp, Beatrice of Nazareth, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete were acknowledged handmaidens of God's prophetic spirit. Their teaching, solidly based in theological and metaphysical culture, was even thought superior to that of the scholastic doctors of the time. ...an important work of reference for Christians and spiritual seekers as well as an inspirational resource for those who aspire to 'see without intermediary what God is.'" -- page 4 of cover.
Women And Mystical Experience In The Middle Ages
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Author : Frances Beer
language : en
Publisher: Boydell Press
Release Date : 1992
Women And Mystical Experience In The Middle Ages written by Frances Beer and has been published by Boydell Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
Original and thought-provoking study of three medieval women mystics based on writings and biographical material.
The Female Mystic
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Author : Andrea Janelle Dickens
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2009-05-30
The Female Mystic written by Andrea Janelle Dickens and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-30 with Religion categories.
The Middle Ages saw a flourishing of mysticism that was astonishing for its richness and distinctiveness. The medieval period was unlike any other period of Christianity in producing people who frequently claimed visions of Christ and Mary, uttered prophecies, gave voice to ecstatic experiences, recited poems and songs said to emanate directly from God and changed their ways of life as a result of these special revelations. Many recipients of these alleged divine gifts were women. Yet the female contribution to western Europe's intellectual and religious development is still not well understood. Popular or lay religion has been overshadowed by academic theology, which was predominantly the theology of men. This timely book rectifies the neglect by examining a number of women whose lives exemplify traditions which were central to medieval theology but whose contributions have tended to be dismissed as 'merely spiritual' by today's scholars. In their different ways, visionaries like Richeldis de Faverches (founder of the Holy House at Walsingham, or 'England's Nazareth'), the learned Hildegard of Bingen, Hadewijch of Brabant (exemplary voice of the Beguine tradition of love mysticism), charismatic traveller and pilgrim Margery Kempe and anchoress Julian of Norwich all challenged traditional male scholastic theology. Designed for the use of undergraduate student and general reader alike, this attractive survey provides an introduction to thirteen remarkable women and sets their ideas in context.
Medieval Women Mystics
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Author : Elizabeth Ruth Obbard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-10
Medieval Women Mystics written by Elizabeth Ruth Obbard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10 with Religion categories.
While women's contribution to spirituality has often been overlooked or minimized in the past, there is a vital and growing interest in it today. Essential reading for anyone interested in medieval and/or women's spirituality and church history.
The Feminine Mystic
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Author : Lynne M. Deming
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The Feminine Mystic written by Lynne M. Deming and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Mysticism categories.
"In this blessed revelation I was truly taught that any man or woman who voluntarily chooses God in this lifetime may be sure that he or she is chosen. Pay true heed to this, for it is indeed God's will for us to be as certain in our trust to have the bliss of heaven whilst we are here as we shall be certain of it when we are there". -- Julian of Norwich "When a soul has reached the third stage, the love of friendship and filial love, her love is no longer mercenary. Rather she does as very close friends do when one receives a gift from the other. The receiver does not look just at the gift, but at the heart and the love of the giver, and accepts and treasures the gift only because of the friend's affectionate love. So the soul, when she has reached the third stage of perfect love, when she receives my gifts and graces does not look only at the gift but with her mind's eye looks at the affectionate charity of me, the Giver". -- Catherine of Siena Readers interested in women's spirituality have long been aware that much contemporary writing has its roots in the work of the early feminine mystics. The writings of women such as Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, and Catherine of Siena both inspired and laid the foundation for the rich body of literature that is now available to us. "The Feminine Mystic" is a collection of readings by the early women mystics that helps readers explore the richness of these ancient writings in a systematic way. The one- or two-page selections are collected around a variety of themes, such as prayer, God, justice, and vocation. An introduction describes both the women in their contexts and their contemporary significance. Easy to read, withinclusive-language editing, these brief selections provide a well-organized and comprehensive volume of this ancient and foundational body of texts. Ideal for those who practice daily spiritual reading as a discipline.
Flesh Made Word
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Author : Emily A. Holmes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Flesh Made Word written by Emily A. Holmes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Incarnation categories.
Flesh Made Word is a fresh, inclusive theology of the incarnation.
Indelicacy
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Author : Amina Cain
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2020-02-11
Indelicacy written by Amina Cain and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-11 with Fiction categories.
FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE "Cain’s small but mighty novel reads like a ghost story and packs the punch of a feminist classic." —The New York Times Book Review A haunted feminist fable, Amina Cain’s Indelicacy is the story of a woman navigating between gender and class roles to empower herself and fulfill her dreams. In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a cleaning woman at a museum of art nurtures aspirations to do more than simply dust the paintings around her. She dreams of having the liberty to explore them in writing, and so must find a way to win herself the time and security to use her mind. She escapes her lot by marrying a rich man, but having gained a husband, a house, high society, and a maid, she finds that her new life of privilege is no less constrained. Not only has she taken up different forms of time-consuming labor—social and erotic—but she is now, however passively, forcing other women to clean up after her. Perhaps another and more drastic solution is necessary? Reminiscent of a lost Victorian classic in miniature, yet taking equal inspiration from such modern authors as Jean Rhys, Octavia Butler, Clarice Lispector, and Jean Genet, Amina Cain's Indelicacy is at once a ghost story without a ghost, a fable without a moral, and a down-to-earth investigation of the barriers faced by women in both life and literature. It is a novel about seeing, class, desire, anxiety, pleasure, friendship, and the battle to find one’s true calling.
Visions And Longings
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Author : Monica Furlong
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 1997-04-15
Visions And Longings written by Monica Furlong and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-15 with Religion categories.
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
Women Mystics Confront The Modern World
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Author : Marie-Florine Bruneau
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1998-01-29
Women Mystics Confront The Modern World written by Marie-Florine Bruneau and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-29 with Religion categories.
Women Mystics Confront the Modern World situates the female mystical tradition within the context of the epistemological shift which affected religious sentiments and the perception of the self at the dawn of the modern world. Anchored in a comprehensive knowledge of the religious history of seventeenth-century France, this book offers a vivid account of the fascinating lives and work of two exceptional women. Marie de l'Incarnation (1599-1672) and Madame Guyon (1648-1717) continue a literary and spiritual tradition that had begun in the thirteenth century. Yet, because they were at a crucial point in the history of Western mysticism, when this movement was at once at its apogee and in the first stages of decline, their writings show indications of a changing mentality. These transformations shed light on the social significance of female mysticism in the Western tradition. The opportunities the two women seized or shunned highlight their maneuvering for validation and autonomy. But their choices also highlight many contradictions, compromises, and limits imposed upon their self-expression. At the confluence of French and American scholarship on mysticism, this work joins these two schools of thought by introducing gender as a viable category of inquiry into the one and by tempering the overly-optimistic interpretation of female mysticism of the other.
Power Gender And Christian Mysticism
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Author : Grace Jantzen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-11-16
Power Gender And Christian Mysticism written by Grace Jantzen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-11-16 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
In the western Christian tradition, the mystic was seen as having direct access to God, and therefore great authority. In this study, Dr Jantzen discusses how men of power defined and controlled who should count as a mystic, and thus who would have power: women were pointedly excluded. This makes her book of special interest to those in gender studies and medieval history. Its main argument, however, is philosophical. Because the mystical has gone through many social constructions, the modern philosophical assumption that mysticism is essentially about intense subjective experiences is misguided. This view is historically inaccurate, and perpetuates the same gendered struggle for authority which characterises the history of western christendom. This book is the first on the subject to take issues of gender seriously, and to use these as a point of entry for a deconstructive approach to Christian mysticism.