Body and soul : essays on medieval women and mysticism

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Label

Body and soul : essays on medieval women and mysticism

Title remainder

essays on medieval women and mysticism

Statement of responsibility

Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff

Creator

• Petroff, Elizabeth

Subject

• Christian literature -- History and criticism
• Civilization, Medieval, in literature
• Mysticism -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Body and soul in literature
• Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500
• Women mystics -- Europe
• Mysticism and literature

Language

eng

Summary

Opening a window onto a long-neglected world of women's experience, this text features eleven essays that examine the writings of medieval women mystics from England, France, Germany, Italy, and the Low Countries, providing close readings of a number of important texts from the viewpoint of different literary theories. Surveying various styles of hagiographical writing, the author offers ground-breaking scholarship on a broad range of topics such as how medieval holy women may have appeared to their contemporaries, medieval antifeminism, comparisons between earlier and later Christian mystical writing, the relationship between male confessors and female penitents in the Middle Ages, and the process by which these extraordinary women produced their work. For courses in religious, medieval, or women's studies, this unique text fills a conspicuous gap in an important and fascinating field of literature

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

248.2/2/082

Index

index present

LC call number

BV5077.E85

LC item number

P48 1994

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography