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Author : Mechthild (von Hackeborn)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (955 download)
Download or read book The Booke of Gostlye Grace of Mechtild of Hackeborn written by Mechthild (von Hackeborn) and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mechthild (of Hackeborn)
Publisher : PIMS
ISBN 13 : 9780888440464
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The booke of gostlye grace of Mechtild of Hackeborn written by Mechthild (of Hackeborn) and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1979 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan S. Emerson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135670250
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Imagining Heaven in the Middle Ages written by Jan S. Emerson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval attempts to capture a glimpse of heaven range from the ethereal to the mundane, utilizing media as diverse as maps, cathedrals, songs, treatises, poems, visions and sewer systems. Heaven was at once the goal of the individual Christian life and the end of the cosmic plan. It was, simply stated, perfection. But interpretations varied from the traditional to the dangerously unique as artists and authors, theologians and visionaries struggled to define that perfection. Depending on the source, heaven's attributes vary from height to depth, darkness to light, silence to symphony; the souls within it from activity to passivity, experience to essence, participation to distant admiration. Questions addressed in this anthology include: Are erotic and spiritual love mutually exclusive? Does the soul's happiness depend on the resurrection of the body? What will be the nature of the transfigured body? Will it retain its gender? Will it have senses? Will it know desire? How can desire and fulfillment exist together? Can the human soul ever know God? Contributors to this volume examine well-known and previously unexplored texts and artefacts from historical and art historical, theological, philosophical, and literary perspectives, to complement and challenge more general surveys of the history of heaven, and above all to illuminate the richness and variety of medieval Christian ideas on heaven.
Author : Anna Harrison
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 087907289X
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Thousands and Thousands of Lovers written by Anna Harrison and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands and Thousands of Lovers examines the spiritual significance of community to the Cistercian nuns of Helfta—a concern that lies at the heart of the monastery’s literature. Focusing on a woefully understudied resource and the largest body of female-authored writings in the thirteenth century, this book offers insight into the religious preoccupations of a theologically expert and intellectually vibrant cloister to reveal a subtle interplay between communal practice and private piety, other-directed attention, and inward-religious impulse. It considers the nuns’ attitudes toward community among themselves and with their household members as well as with souls in purgatory and the saints.
Author : Racha Kirakosian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108841236
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book From the Material to the Mystical in Late Medieval Piety written by Racha Kirakosian and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining correlations between the material and the mystical, this books investigates collective writing and devotional culture in late medieval piety.
Author : Anita Auer
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786833964
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Revisiting the Medieval North of England written by Anita Auer and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Interdisciplinary nature of the volume 2. Reflection of recent work carried on the North of England in various projects 3. Sheds new light on the North of England (underexplored thus far) and asks new questions / sets out new lines of inquiry for future research (?)
Author : Sandra J. McEntire
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135635188
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Julian of Norwich written by Sandra J. McEntire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays-written specifically for this book-provide a rich evaluation of this late 14th and early 15th-century mystical writer's book of revelations and considers the construction of her narrative, its theological complexity, and its literary and intellectual context. This casebook features discussions by both established scholars and newer voices ranging from genre to eschatology and gynecology to diabology, reflecting both current and comparative theory. Providing translations of all Middle English quotations, the volume includes a selective bibliography that provides a guide for further reading.
Author : Patricia Skinner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351051407
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Medieval and Early Modern Garden in Britain written by Patricia Skinner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was a "garden" in medieval and early modern British culture and how was it imagined? How did it change as Europe opened up to the wider world from the 16th century onwards? In a series of fresh approaches to these questions, the contributors offer chapters that identify and discuss newly-discovered pre-modern garden spaces in archaeology and archival sources, recognize a gendered language of the garden in fictional descriptions ("fictional" here being taken to mean any written text, regardless of its purpose), and offer new analysis of the uses to which gardens - real and imagined - might be put. Chapters investigate the definitions, forms and functions of physical gardens; explore how the material space of the garden was gendered as a secluded space for women, and as a place of recreation; examine the centrality of garden imagery in medieval Christian culture; and trace the development of garden motifs in the literary and artistic imagination to convey the sense of enclosure, transformation and release. The book uniquely underlines the current environmental "turn" in the humanities, and increasingly recognizes the value of exploring human interaction with the landscapes of the past as a route to health and well-being in the present.
Author : John M. Jeep
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351665405
Total Pages : 969 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Medieval Germany (2001) written by John M. Jeep and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 969 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001, Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive guide to the German and Dutch-speaking world in the Middle Ages, from approximately C.E. 500 to 1500. It offers detailed accounts of a wide variety of aspects of medieval Germany, including language, literature, architecture, politics, warfare, medicine, philosophy and religion. In addition, this reference work includes bibliographies and citations to aid further study. This A-Z encyclopedia, featuring over 500 entries written by expert contributors, will be of key interest to students and scholars, as well as general readers.
Author : David Lyle Jeffrey
Publisher : Regent College Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781573831642
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (316 download)
Download or read book English Spirituality in the Age of Wesley written by David Lyle Jeffrey and published by Regent College Publishing. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karma Lochrie
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081220753X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh written by Karma Lochrie and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999 Karma Lochrie demonstrates that women were associated not with the body but rather with the flesh, that disruptive aspect of body and soul which Augustine claimed was fissured with the Fall of Man. It is within this framework that she reads The Book of Margery Kempe, demonstrating the ways in which Kempe exploited the gendered ideologies of flesh and text through her controversial practices of writing, her inappropriate-seeming laughter, and the most notorious aspect of her mysticism, her "hysterical" weeping expressions of religious desire. Lochrie challenges prevailing scholarly assumptions of Kempe's illiteracy, her role in the writing of her book, her misunderstanding of mystical concepts, and the failure of her book to influence a reading community. In her work and her life, Kempe consistently crossed the barriers of those cultural taboos designed to exclude and silence her. Instead of viewing Kempe as marginal to the great mystical and literary traditions of the late Middle Ages, this study takes her seriously as a woman responding to the cultural constraints and exclusions of her time. Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh will be of interest to students and scholars of medieval studies, intellectual history, and feminist theory.
Author : Richard Rex
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874135671
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book "The Sins of Madame Eglentyne", and Other Essays on Chaucer written by Richard Rex and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this single-author collection are principally concerned with Madame Eglentyne, the demure and elegant prioress depicted in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Richard Rex contends that how we think about Chaucer as a Christian depends largely on our interpretation of the Prioress's Tale, which in turn is linked to the brilliant portrait of Madame Eglentyne in the General Prologue.
Author : David Aers
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271042915
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Powers of the Holy written by David Aers and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael O'Connor
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498538673
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Music, Theology, and Justice written by Michael O'Connor and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music does not make itself. It is made by people: professionals and amateurs, singers and instrumentalists, composers and publishers, performers and audiences, entrepreneurs and consumers. In turn, making music shapes those who make it—spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, socially, politically, economically—for good or ill, harming and healing. This volume considers the social practice of music from a Christian point of view. Using a variety of methodological perspectives, the essays explore the ethical and doctrinal implications of music-making. The reflections are grouped according to the traditional threefold ministry of Christ: prophet, priest, and shepherd: the prophetic role of music, as a means of articulating protest against injustice, offering consolation, and embodying a harmonious order; the pastoral role of music: creating and sustaining community, building peace, fostering harmony with the whole of creation; and the priestly role of music: in service of reconciliation and restoration, for individuals and communities, offering prayers of praise and intercession to God. Using music in priestly, prophetic, and pastoral ways, Christians pray for and rehearse the coming of God’s kingdom—whether in formal worship, social protest, concert performance, interfaith sharing, or peacebuilding. Whereas temperance was of prime importance in relation to the ethics of music from antiquity to the early modern period, justice has become central to contemporary debates. This book seeks to contribute to those debates by means of Christian theological reflection on a wide range of musics: including monastic chant, death metal, protest songs, psalms and worship music, punk rock, musical drama, interfaith choral singing, Sting, and Daft Punk.
Author : Marion Glasscoe
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780859913461
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (134 download)
Download or read book The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England written by Marion Glasscoe and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1992 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve papers focus on mysticism as an experience and on the work of individual mystics.
Author : Richard Matthew Pollard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316832465
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)
Download or read book Imagining the Medieval Afterlife written by Richard Matthew Pollard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do we go after we die? This book traces how the European Middle Ages offered distinctive answers to this universal question, evolving from Antiquity through to the sixteenth century, to reflect a variety of problems and developments. Focussing on texts describing visions of the afterlife, alongside art and theology, this volume explores heaven, hell, and purgatory as they were imagined across Europe, as well as by noted authors including Gregory the Great and Dante. A cross-disciplinary team of contributors including historians, literary scholars, classicists, art historians and theologians offer not only a fascinating sketch of both medieval perceptions and the wide scholarship on this question: they also provide a much-needed new perspective. Where the twelfth century was once the 'high point' of the medieval afterlife, the essays here show that the afterlives of the early and later Middle Ages were far more important and imaginative than we once thought.
Author : Mary Dzon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812248848
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages written by Mary Dzon and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the twelfth century, clergy and laity alike started wondering with intensity about the historical and developmental details of Jesus' early life. Was the Christ Child like other children, whose characteristics and capabilities depended on their age? Was he sweet and tender, or formidable and powerful? Not finding sufficient information in the Gospels, which are almost completely silent about Jesus' childhood, medieval Christians turned to centuries-old apocryphal texts for answers. In The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages, Mary Dzon demonstrates how these apocryphal legends fostered a vibrant and creative medieval piety. Popular tales about the Christ Child entertained the laity and at the same time were reviled by some members of the intellectual elite of the church. In either case, such legends, so persistent, left their mark on theological, devotional, and literary texts. The Cistercian abbot Aelred of Rievaulx urged his monastic readers to imitate the Christ Child's development through spiritual growth; Francis of Assisi encouraged his followers to emulate the Christ Child's poverty and rusticity; Thomas Aquinas, for his part, believed that apocryphal stories about the Christ Child would encourage youths to be presumptuous, while Birgitta of Sweden provided pious alternatives in her many Marian revelations. Through close readings of such writings, Dzon explores the continued transmission and appeal of apocryphal legends throughout the Middle Ages and demonstrates the significant impact that the Christ Child had in shaping the medieval religious imagination.
