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Mysticism in early modern England
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ISBN: 9781783273935 1783273933 9781787445017 1787445011 Year: 2019 Publisher: Woodbridge The Boydell Press

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Mysticism in Early Modern England examines a vital juncture in the history of Christian mysticism. Exploring both Catholic and Protestant views across the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the book argues for a re-evaluation of the cross-denominational appeal of mystical spirituality. It traces the mysticism of figures such as the Benedictine Augustine Baker, the Familist preacher John Everard, the millenarian Jane Lead, and the Cambridge Platonist writers Henry More and John Worthington. At the same time, it explores the arguments of a number of early modern critics including Meric Casaubon and Edward Stillingfleet, who viewed mysticism with suspicion and ridicule, a product of melancholy and madness incompatible with learned theological and doctrinal discussions. The book contends that the early modern period ultimately saw the association of mysticism with sectarianism, radicalism and religious enthusiasm, resulting in a negative connotation that lasted well into the twentieth century. It also explores connections between England and the Continent, suggesting that parallel and interconnected criticisms of mysticism occurred in France, Italy and Germany over the period. In analysing this significant change in attitude towards mysticism, the book suggests that recent scholarly attempts to 'return' mysticism to modern religious institutions and mainstream histories of religion can be viewed as a direct response to the rejection of mysticism in the early modern period.

Approaching medieval English anchoritic and mystical texts
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ISBN: 1843840499 9781846153679 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge Brewer

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"Essays suggesting new ways of studying the crucial but sometimes difficult range of medieval mystical material"--Provided by publisher.

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Medieval Latin literature --- Old English literature --- Christian spirituality --- anno 500-1499 --- Christian literature, English (Middle) --- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Mysticism --- Hermits --- Littérature chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais) --- Littérature chrétienne latine médiévale et moderne --- Mysticisme --- Ermites --- History and criticism. --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- -Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- -Mysticism --- -Hermits --- -Christian literature, English (Middle) --- -248.2 "04/14" --- 248.2 <420> "04/14" --- Anchorites --- Eremites --- Persons --- Hermitages --- Recluses --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Latin Christian literature, Medieval and modern --- Latin literature, Medieval and modern --- Christian literature, English --- Christian literature, Middle English --- English Christian literature, Middle --- Middle English Christian literature --- English literature --- -Study and teaching. --- Study and teaching. --- Mystieke theologie. Mystiek. Mysticisme--Middeleeuwen --- Mystieke theologie. Mystiek. Mysticisme--Engeland--Middeleeuwen --- 248.2 <420> "04/14" Mystieke theologie. Mystiek. Mysticisme--Engeland--Middeleeuwen --- 248.2 "04/14" Mystieke theologie. Mystiek. Mysticisme--Middeleeuwen --- Littérature chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais) --- Littérature chrétienne latine médiévale et moderne --- 248.2 "04/14" --- History and criticism --- Study and teaching --- History&delete&


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Julian of Norwich: the influence of late-medieval devotional compilations
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ISBN: 9781843841814 9781846156502 Year: 2008 Volume: 6 Publisher: Cambridge Brewer


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French books of hours : making an archive of prayer, c. 1400-1600
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ISBN: 9781107460065 9781107007215 1107007216 9781139030496 1107460069 9781139232081 1139232088 1139030493 9781139233620 1139233629 9781139230636 1107227674 9781107227675 1139234323 9781139234320 1280485620 9781280485626 1139232843 9781139232845 9786613580603 6613580600 1139230638 9781139230636 1139229176 9781139229173 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Book of Hours was a 'best-seller' in medieval and early modern Europe, the era's most commonly produced and owned book. This interdisciplinary study explores its increasing popularity and prestige, offering a full account of the Book of Hours as a book - how it was acquired, how it was read to guide prayer and teach literacy and what it meant to its owners as a personal possession. Based on the study of over 500 manuscripts and printed books from France, Virginia Reinburg combines a social history of the Book of Hours with an ethnography of prayer. Approaching the practice of prayer as both speech and ritual, she argues that a central part of the Book of Hours' appeal for lay people was its role as a bridge between the liturgy and the home. Reinburg describes how the Book of Hours shaped religious practice through the ways in which it was used.


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The scourge of demons : possession, lust, and witchcraft in a seventeenth-century Italian convent
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ISBN: 9781580462983 1580462987 9781580467322 1580465641 9786612895036 1580467326 1282895036 Year: 2009 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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Based primarily on the exhaustive investigation by the Inquisition of Modena, 'The Scourge of Demons' examines this fascinating case in its historical context. The travails of Santa Chiara occurred at a time when Europe witnessed peaks in both witch-hunting and in the numbers of people reputedly possessed by demons. Female religious figures appeared particularly prone to demonic attacks, and Counter-Reformation Church authorities were especially interested in imposing stricter discipline on convents. Watt carefully considers how the nuns of Santa Chiara understood and experienced alleged possession and witchcraft, concluding that Santa Chiara's diabolical troubles and their denouement - involving the actions of nuns, confessors, inquisitorial authorities, and exorcists - were profoundly shaped by the unique confluence of religious, cultural, judicial, and intellectual trends that flourished in the 1630s. Jeffrey R. Watt is professor of history at the University of Mississippi.

Authority and the female body in the writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe
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ISBN: 1843840081 9786611949761 1281949760 1846152615 9781846152610 Year: 2004 Volume: 5 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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The writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe show an awareness of traditional and contemporary attitudes towards women, in particular medieval attitudes towards the female body. This study examines the extent to which they make use of such attitudes in their writing, and investigates the importance of the female body as a means of explaining their mystical experiences and the insight gained from them; in both writers, the female body is central to their writing, leading to a feminised language through which they achieve authority and create a space in which they can be heard, particularly in the context of their religious and mystical experiences. The three archetypal representations of woman in the middle ages, as mother, as whore and as 'wise woman', are all clearly present in the writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe; in examining the ways in which both writers make use of these female categories, McAvoy establishes the extent of their success in resolving the tension between society's expectations of them and their own lived experiences as women and writers. LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY is Lecturer in Medieval Language and Literature, University of Leicester.

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Julian of Norwich --- Kempe, Margery --- Authority in literature. --- Christian literature, English (Middle) --- English literature --- Human body in literature. --- Mysticism in literature. --- Mysticism --- Women and literature --- Women in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- History --- 248.2-055.2 --- 248.2 <420> "04/14" --- Mystieke theologie. Mystiek. Mysticisme--055.2--Vrouwen --- Mystieke theologie. Mystiek. Mysticisme--Engeland--Middeleeuwen --- 248.2 <420> "04/14" Mystieke theologie. Mystiek. Mysticisme--Engeland--Middeleeuwen --- Authority in literature --- Human body in literature --- Mysticism in literature --- Women in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- History and criticism --- Women authors&delete& --- Julian, --- Kempe, Margery, --- I︠U︡liana, --- Juliana, --- Knowledge --- Human anatomy. --- JULIAN DE NORWICH, 1343-? --- KEMPE (MARGERY), 1373-CA 1436 --- LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- MYSTICISME DANS LA LITTERATURE --- LITTERATURE CHRETIENNE ANGLAISE --- MYSTICISME --- FEMMES ET LITTERATURE --- CORPS HUMAIN DANS LA LITTERATURE --- AUTORITE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- FEMMES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- CONNAISSANCE --- ANATOMIE HUMAINE --- 1100-1500 (MOYEN-ANGLAIS) --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- FEMMES ECRIVAINS --- ANGLETERRE --- HISTOIRE --- MOYEN AGE, 600-1500 --- GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- JUSQUE 1500 --- Mysticism.


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Civic ceremony and religion in medieval Bruges c.1300-1520
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ISBN: 9781107692039 9780521764452 0521764459 9780511933882 9780511933363 0511933363 0511933886 1107217261 0511853181 1282931776 9786612931772 0511932006 0511930666 0511928157 051192562X 1107692032 9781107217263 9780511853180 9781282931770 6612931779 9780511932007 9780511930669 9780511928154 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Public religious practice lay at the heart of civic society in late medieval Europe. In this illuminating study, Andrew Brown draws on the rich and previously little-researched archives of Bruges, one of medieval Europe's wealthiest and most important towns, to explore the role of religion and ceremony in urban society. The author situates the religious practices of citizens - their investment in the liturgy, commemorative services, guilds and charity - within the contexts of Bruges' highly diversified society and of the changes and crises the town experienced. Focusing on the religious processions and festivities sponsored by the municipal government, the author challenges much current thinking on, for example, the nature of 'civic religion'. Re-evaluating the ceremonial links between Bruges and its rulers, he questions whether rulers could dominate the urban landscape by religious or ceremonial means, and offers new insight into the interplay between ritual and power of relevance throughout medieval Europe.

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Civil religion --- Rites and ceremonies --- Bruges --- --Religion --- --Rite --- --Cérémonie --- --Vie religieuse --- --Coutume --- --Histoire de l'Église --- --Bruges (Belgium) --- Bruges (Belgium) --- Religion --- Religious life and customs --- Church history --- Municipal ceremonial --- History --- Religion. --- Religious life and customs. --- Church history. --- Religion civile --- -27 <493 BRUGGE> --- 248.1 --- 264-057 --- Religion, Civil --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Ceremonies --- Kerkgeschiedenis--België--BRUGGE --- Ascetische theologie --- Processies --- Geschiedenis van België: graafschap Vlaanderen; provincie West-Vlaanderen--(reg./lok.)--BRUGGE --- -Bruges (Belgium) --- -Religion. --- 949.33 BRUGGE Geschiedenis van België: graafschap Vlaanderen; provincie West-Vlaanderen--(reg./lok.)--BRUGGE --- 264-057 Processies --- 248.1 Ascetische theologie --- -Rites and ceremonies --- 949.33 BRUGGE --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- -Brugge (Belgium) --- Brujas (Belgium) --- Bri︠u︡gge (Belgium) --- Bruga (Belgium) --- Brucke Villa (Belgium) --- Brudgias (Belgium) --- Brugae Flandrorum (Belgium) --- Brugiae (Belgium) --- Brugias (Belgium) --- Brugis (Belgium) --- Flandrense Municipium (Belgium) --- 27 <493 BRUGGE> --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Nationalism --- Religion and culture --- Religion and state --- Religious aspects --- Brugge (Belgium) --- Christian church history --- History of Belgium and Luxembourg --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1300-1399 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Rites et cérémonies --- Bruges (Belgique) --- Vie religieuse --- Histoire religieuse --- Arts and Humanities --- Civil religion - Belgium - Bruges --- Rites and ceremonies - Belgium - Bruges --- Rite --- Cérémonie --- Coutume --- Histoire de l'Église --- Bruges (Belgium) - Religion --- Bruges (Belgium) - Religious life and customs --- Bruges (Belgium) - Church history


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The Virgin Mary's book at the Annunciation : reading, interpretation, and devotion in Medieval England
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ISBN: 9781843845348 1843845342 9781787448780 1787448789 9781843846284 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer,

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An overlooked aspect of the iconography of the Annunciation investigated - Mary's book.

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091.31 --- 248.159.4 --- 094:2 --- 094:2 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Godsdienst. Theologie --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Godsdienst. Theologie --- 248.159.4 Mariale devotie. Verering van O. L. Vrouw. Mariamaand --- Mariale devotie. Verering van O. L. Vrouw. Mariamaand --- 091.31 Verluchte handschriften --- Verluchte handschriften --- Books --- Books and reading --- History --- Mary, --- Annunciation. --- History of doctrines. --- Books and reading. --- Appraisal of books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- ʻAdhrāʼ --- Arogyamata --- Ārōkkiyamāta --- Birhen ng mga Dukha --- Blessed Lady --- Blessed Mother --- Blessed Virgin Mary, --- Hagnē Theotokos --- Madonna, The --- Majka Isusova --- Mama Mary --- Mare de Déu --- Maria, --- Mariam Astuatsatsin, --- Marie, --- Marie Théotokos --- Marii︠a︡, --- Maryam, --- Maryja, --- Meryem Ana, --- Miryam, --- Mother of God --- Muíre, --- Nossa Senhora --- Our Lady --- Our Lady of Emmitsburg --- Our Lady of Good Health --- Our Lady of Sorrows --- Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament --- Qiddīsah Maryam --- Theotokos --- Vierge Marie, --- Virgen María, --- Virgin Mary, --- Virgin of the Poor --- Ynang Maria, --- مريم --- مريم العذراء --- 성모마리아 --- Aesthetics --- Christology --- Mary [s.] --- Great Britain --- Art. --- Conception. --- Devotion. --- Devotional Practices. --- Female Readers. --- Hermeneutic Model. --- Iconography. --- Incarnation. --- Interpretation. --- Medieval Culture. --- Medieval England. --- Middle Ages. --- Old Testament. --- Reading. --- Reformation. --- Religious Treatises. --- Spiritual Reading. --- The Virgin Mary's Book. --- Virgin Mary. --- Visionary Accounts.

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