Promised Bodies
Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women's Mystical Texts
1st Edition
Published on 31. August 2015
272 pages
978-0-231-53552-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Patricia Dailey is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University.
Content
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 Postscriptum of the Soul
4. Living Song: Dwelling in Hadewijch's Liederen
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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 Postscriptum of the Soul
4. Living Song: Dwelling in Hadewijch's Liederen
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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