8. "Unite yourself with his family": Community with Mary and the saints. 1. "Oh! What treasure is in this book?" Writing, reading, and community -- 2. "A queen is magnanimous at her king's banquet": Relationships among the nuns -- 3. "Tears and sights": Community in illness, death, and grief -- 4. "I am wholly your own": liturgy and community -- Part 2. Within and beyond the cloister -- 5. "A husband enjoys his wife more freely in private": the nuns and the clergy -- 6. "The people are also my members": community within and beyond the monastery -- Part 3. The living and the dead -- 7. "Give her all that is yours": Community and the population of purgatory -- 8. "Unite yourself with his family": Community with Mary and the saints.
Summary:
"Thousands and Thousands of Lovers examines the spiritual significance of community to the Cistercian nuns of Helfta"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Cistercian studies series ; number two hundred eighty-nine
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