Promised bodies : time, language, and corporeality in Medieval women's mystical texts / Patricia Dailey.
In Christianity, the body is a potentially transformative vehicle, and the writings of Hadewijch of Brabant, a thirteenth-century beguine, engage with this tradition in ways both singular to her mysticism and indicative of her theological milieu. This study links the embodied poetics of Hadewijch�...
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2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Children of Promise, Children of the Flesh: Augustine's Two Bodies; 2. The Mystic's Two Bodies: The Temporal and Material Poetics of Visionary Texts; 3. Werke and the the Postscriptum of the Soul; 4. Living Song: Dwelling in Hadewijch's Liederen; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.