Promised Bodies - Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women''s Mystical Texts

rossing linguistic and historical boundaries, Patricia Dailey connects the embodied poetics of Hadewijch of Brabant's visions, writings, and letters to the work of Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, Marguerite of Oingt, and other mystics and visionaries.

List of contents

AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Children of Promise, Children of the Flesh: Augustine's Two Bodies2. The Mystic's Two Bodies: The Temporal and Material Poetics of Visionary Texts3. Werke and the Postscriptum of the Soul4. Living Song: Dwelling in Hadewijch's LiederenConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

About the author

Patricia Dailey is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University.

Summary

rossing linguistic and historical boundaries, Patricia Dailey connects the embodied poetics of Hadewijch of Brabant’s visions, writings, and letters to the work of Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, Marguerite of Oingt, and other mystics and visionaries.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Dailey, Patricia (Associate Professor of English a Dailey, Patricia (Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Dailey, Dailey Patricia
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2013
• EAN: 9780231161206
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16120-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Gender, Theory, and Religion; Gender, Theory, and Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Mysticism, Christianity, mysticism, Christian Mysticism