The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England
Papers Read at Charney Manor, July 2004 [Exeter Symposium VII]
Published on 15. June 2004
Book
Hardback
226 pages
978-1-84384-007-7 (ISBN)
Description
The regular meetings resumed, here with particular focus on Julian of Norwich, and Syon Abbey and the Bridgettines.
The latest volume of proceedings in the series initiated by Marion Glasscoe in 1980 shares with its predecessors a concentrated focus on the English mystical authors and the reception of their continental contemporaries in medieval England. At the same time, it bears witness to the range of disciplinary approaches - literary, historical, theological, art historical - which are currently bearing fruit in research on the medieval mystical tradition.
Thethirteen papers include new work on Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, the Cloud- author and the thirteenth-century anchoritic texts; texts connected with Syon Abbey and the Bridgettines; and the reception of Ruusbroec, Eckhart and the continental holy women in England. Among the themes explored are the spirituality of the religious orders; gender, class and mystical discourse; the theological precision of mystical language, and the translatio of the continental mystics into English cultural forms.
Contributors: DENISE N. BAKER, ALEXANDRA BARRATT, SUSANNAH MARY CHEWNING, MARLEEN CRE, VASLERIE EDDEN, VINCENT GILLESPIE, DAVID GRIFFITH, A.ANNETTE GRISE, ANN M. HUTCHISON, LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY, KARL HEINZ STEINMETZ, ANNIE SUTHERLAND, NAOE KUKITA YOSHIKAWA.
Dr E.A. JONES teaches in the Department of English at the University of Exeter.
The latest volume of proceedings in the series initiated by Marion Glasscoe in 1980 shares with its predecessors a concentrated focus on the English mystical authors and the reception of their continental contemporaries in medieval England. At the same time, it bears witness to the range of disciplinary approaches - literary, historical, theological, art historical - which are currently bearing fruit in research on the medieval mystical tradition.
Thethirteen papers include new work on Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, the Cloud- author and the thirteenth-century anchoritic texts; texts connected with Syon Abbey and the Bridgettines; and the reception of Ruusbroec, Eckhart and the continental holy women in England. Among the themes explored are the spirituality of the religious orders; gender, class and mystical discourse; the theological precision of mystical language, and the translatio of the continental mystics into English cultural forms.
Contributors: DENISE N. BAKER, ALEXANDRA BARRATT, SUSANNAH MARY CHEWNING, MARLEEN CRE, VASLERIE EDDEN, VINCENT GILLESPIE, DAVID GRIFFITH, A.ANNETTE GRISE, ANN M. HUTCHISON, LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY, KARL HEINZ STEINMETZ, ANNIE SUTHERLAND, NAOE KUKITA YOSHIKAWA.
Dr E.A. JONES teaches in the Department of English at the University of Exeter.
Reviews / Votes
The series has from the beginning been instrumental in sustaining this field of study. [...]All in all, this is a rich collection, one that gives grounds for hope that the next twenty-five years' worth of volumes will have as much to contribute as have their predecessors. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *More details
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
522 gr
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Papers Read at Charney Manor, July 2004 [Exeter Symposium VII]
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E.A. JONES is Professor of English Medieval Literature and Culture in the Department of English at the University of Exeter. ANNIE SUTHERLAND is Associate Professor, University of Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow in Old and Middle English, Somerville College. Christiania Whitehead is Privat Docent and senior research fellow at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland E.A. JONES is Professor of English Medieval Literature and Culture in the Department of English at the University of Exeter. LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY FLSW is Professor Emerita of Medieval Literature at Swansea University and Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol. NAOE KUKITA YOSHIKAWA is Professor Emerita of Medieval English Literature at Shizuoka University, and Research Fellow at the Center for Medieval English Literary Text Studies, Meiji University, Japan. NICOLE R. RICE is Professor of English at St John's University, New York. SUSANNAH MARY CHEWNING is Senior Professor of English, Union County College.
Content
`Our feyth is groundyd in goddes worde'- Julian of Norwich and the Bible' - Annie Sutherland
`We are United with God (and God with Us?)': Adapting Ruusbroec in The Treatise of Perfection of the Sons of God and The Chastising of God's ChildrenChastising of God's Children - Marleen Cre
The Structure of the Soul and the `Godly Wylle' in Julian of Norwich's Showings - Denise Baker
`Neb...sumdeal ilich wummon & neddre is behinden': Reading the Monstrous in the Anchoritic Text - Liz Herbert McAvoy
Reflections on Aspects of the Spiritual Impact of St Birgitta, the Revelations and the Brigittine Order in Late Medieval England - Ann M. Hutchison
Holy Women in Print: Continental Female Mystics and the English Mystical Tradition - C. Annette Grise
The Reception of Continental Women Mystics in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century England: Some Artistic Evidence - David Griffith
Discretio spiritum in Time: The Impact of Julian of Norwich's Counsel in the Book of Margery Kempe - Naoe Kutika Yoshikawa
`Thiself a cros to thiself': Christ as Signum Impressum in the Cloud- Texts against the Background of Expressionistic Christology in Late Medieval Devotional TheologyChristology in Late Medieval Devotional Theology - Karl Heinz Steinmetz
`The prohetycal lyf of an heremyte': Elijah as the Model of the Contemplative Life in The Book of the First Monks - Valerie Edden
`Makedes of me / wrecche $ti leofmon & spuse': Mystical Desire and Visionary Consummation - Susannah Chewning
Lordship, Service and Worship in Julian of Norwich - Alexandra Barratt
`Hid Diuinite': The Spirituality of the English Syon Brethren - Vincent Gillespie
`We are United with God (and God with Us?)': Adapting Ruusbroec in The Treatise of Perfection of the Sons of God and The Chastising of God's ChildrenChastising of God's Children - Marleen Cre
The Structure of the Soul and the `Godly Wylle' in Julian of Norwich's Showings - Denise Baker
`Neb...sumdeal ilich wummon & neddre is behinden': Reading the Monstrous in the Anchoritic Text - Liz Herbert McAvoy
Reflections on Aspects of the Spiritual Impact of St Birgitta, the Revelations and the Brigittine Order in Late Medieval England - Ann M. Hutchison
Holy Women in Print: Continental Female Mystics and the English Mystical Tradition - C. Annette Grise
The Reception of Continental Women Mystics in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century England: Some Artistic Evidence - David Griffith
Discretio spiritum in Time: The Impact of Julian of Norwich's Counsel in the Book of Margery Kempe - Naoe Kutika Yoshikawa
`Thiself a cros to thiself': Christ as Signum Impressum in the Cloud- Texts against the Background of Expressionistic Christology in Late Medieval Devotional TheologyChristology in Late Medieval Devotional Theology - Karl Heinz Steinmetz
`The prohetycal lyf of an heremyte': Elijah as the Model of the Contemplative Life in The Book of the First Monks - Valerie Edden
`Makedes of me / wrecche $ti leofmon & spuse': Mystical Desire and Visionary Consummation - Susannah Chewning
Lordship, Service and Worship in Julian of Norwich - Alexandra Barratt
`Hid Diuinite': The Spirituality of the English Syon Brethren - Vincent Gillespie