Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages
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Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages by Frances Beer
Original and thought-provoking study of three medieval women mystics based on writings and biographical material.
A fascinating and detailed account of medieval spirituality from a feminine perspective.. The clarity and liveliness of her writing make her scholarly analysis accessible and highly worthwhile [to undergraduates as well as to graduate students] CHOICEFrances Beer's elegantly written study affirms the sanity, autonomy and religious genius of her medieval heroines... [She] provides an ideological context for the choice of the religious life [: unthinking misogyny parroted from classical texts; Germanic and Anglo-Saxon admiration for the `valorous woman' at the head of the warrior band and for the virgin who despises torture; the disconcerting shift of erotic idealisation of a remote lady and the relationship of love poetry to the praise of Christ the Bridegroom]. * TIMES HIGHER EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT *
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| ISBN 13 | 9780851153438 |
| ISBN 10 | 0851153437 |
| Title | Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages |
| Author | Frances Beer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Year published | 1992-08-06 |
| Number of pages | 180 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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