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Title:

Maps of flesh and light : the religious experience of medieval women mystics / edited by Ulrike Wiethaus.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Syracuse University Press,

Copyright Date:

1993

Description:

xii, 206 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women mystics--Europe.
Mysticism--Europe--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Experience (Religion)
Vrouwen.
Mystiek.

Other Authors:

Wiethaus, Ulrike.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-197) and index.

Contents:

The rhetoric of orthodoxy : clerical authority and female innovation in the struggle with heresy / Jo Ann McNamara -- Mystical bodies and the dialogics of vision / Laurie A. Finke -- "She wept and cried right loud for sorrow and for pain" : suffering, the spiritual journey, and women's experience in late medieval mysticism / Ellen Ross -- Interior maps of an eternal external : the spiritual rhetoric of Maria Domitilla Galluzzi d'Acqui / E. Ann Matter -- An example of spiritual friendship : the correspondence between Heinrich of Nördlingen and Margaretha Ebner / Margot Schmidt -- In search of medieval women's friendships : Hildegard of Bingen's letters to her female contemporaries / Ulrike Wiethaus -- Reality as imitation : the role of religious imagery among the Beguines of the Low Countries / Joanna E. Ziegler -- Text and context in Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo virtutum / Patricia A. Kazarow.

ISBN:

9780815626114 (pbk.)
0815626118 (pbk.)
9780815625605 (alk. paper)
081562560X (alk. paper)

LCCN:

91033315

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)