Title: Body and soul
Description: 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.
Subjects: Europe, History, Christian literature, History and criticism, Civilization, Medieval, in literature, Mysticism, Mysticism and literature, Women mystics, Women, Body and soul in literature, Geschichte 1000-1500, Vrouwen, Frauenmystik, Mystiek, Middle Ages, Aufsatzsammlung, Mysticism, middle ages, 600-1500, Women, europe
Places: Europe
Time periods: Middle Ages, 500-1500, Middle Ages, 600-1500