TY - BOOK ID - 137088 TI - Poetry of Hadewijch : introductory essay AU - Hadewijch AU - Van Baest, Marieke AU - Schillebeeckx, Edward AU - Peeters PY - 1998 VL - 3 SN - 9042906677 9789042906679 DB - UniCat KW - Medieval Dutch literature KW - Christian spirituality KW - Hadewijch KW - Mystiek KW - Mystique KW - Mysticism KW - Religious poetry KW - Women authors KW - History KW - 248 HADEWYCH KW - -Mysticism KW - -Religious poetry KW - -Poetry KW - Religious literature KW - Hymns KW - Dark night of the soul KW - Mystical theology KW - Theology, Mystical KW - Spiritual life KW - Negative theology KW - Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid--HADEWYCH KW - -Women authors KW - -Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid--HADEWYCH KW - -Dark night of the soul KW - Poetry KW - Church history KW - Hadewijch, KW - Hadewich, KW - Hadewych, KW - Hadewych KW - Mysticism - Middle Ages KW - Religious poetry. KW - Hadewijch, - active 13th century KW - Belgium KW - MYSTICISM KW - RELIGIOUS POETRY KW - HISTORY KW - WOMEN AUTHORS KW - MIDDLE AGES, 600-1500 KW - TRANSLATIONS INTO ENGLISH UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137088 AB - The Stanzaic Poems, written by Hadewijch of Antwerp in the 13th century, are a body of 45 lyrical poems in stanzas. They are daring God-talk in the guise of courtly love songs. Hadewijch uses the linguistic style of chivalry but her poems are by no means courtly poetry. She shifts the current meaning of chivalry by transferring its context to a field of meaning focused on God. Because of the view of Minne (=love) that is embodied in them, the Stanzaic Poems are an exponent of the age old tradition of women's songs - of which the Song of Songs is the best known example - and as such they are an expression of a particular manner of keeping company with God: they celebrate a relationship of mutuality between partners equivalent in love. An introductory essay highlights some of the striking points of lovers: the raging desire of 'orewoet': the gentility of humankind's origin. This essay is followed by a rendering of the Stanzaic Poems from Middle-Dutch into Modern English prose. With an introduction by Edward Schillebeeckx. ER -