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Wasson, Louise. "Untimely meditations : female mysticism in medieval culture and modern scholarship." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.675438.

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Beginning with a survey of the writings of the medieval mulieres religiosae this comparative thesis attempts to explore the medieval mystical tradition as a space of self-construction and self-expression in both the medieval and modern periods. The thesis is preoccupied with tracing an 'untimely' relation between these two historically distant periods via a series of synchronic case studies stretching from the twelfth to the twentieth century, and focusing specifically on the ways in which the writings of female mystics are mediated in the medieval period and re-mediated in the modern period.

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Thomson, David (David Ker). "The language of loss : reading medieval mystical literature." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59912.

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One of the unfortunate corollaries of poststructuralist theorizing about literary texts has been the equation of a skepticism concerning language with a skepticism concerning meaning. The menace of unrestrained relativism has tended to polarize the critical community into proponents of a 'logo-diffuse' onto-epistemology and proponents of a 'logo-centric' one, and critical practice has followed this lead. The critic who attempts to situate literature within the parameters of such a debate is likely to fail unless he or she appeals to a much more extensive discourse, one which antedates the prov

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Rozenski, Steven Peter. "Henry Suso and Richard Rolle: Devotional Mobility and Translation in Late-Medieval England and Germany." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10520.

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Henry Suso (c. 1295-1366) and Richard Rolle (c. 1300-1349) were two of the most popular authors in late-medieval England and Germany: their Latin works survive in hundreds of manuscripts owned by both lay and religious readers across Europe. Authority and exemplarity are central to their works, both writers present themselves as eponymous characters in their works, creating "pseudo-autobiographies" which offer their author-characters to the reader as ideal exemplars for imitation. Also central to their authorial strategy is their attention to feminine aspects of both divinity and audience; bot

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Bussey, Francesca C. ""The world on the end of a reed" Marguerite Porete and the annihilation of an identity in medieval and modern representations : a reassessment /." Connect to full text, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3875.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2008.<br>Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of History, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2008; thesis submitted 2007. Also available in print form. Includes bibliography.

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Davis, Robert. "The Force of Union: Affect and Ascent in the Theology of Bonaventure." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10307.

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The image of love as a burning flame is so widespread in the history of Christian literature as to appear inevitable. But as this dissertation explores, the association of amor with fire played a precise and wide-ranging role in Bonaventure's understanding of the soul's motive power--its capacity to love and be united with God, especially as that capacity was demonstrated in an exemplary way through the spiritual ascent and death of St. Francis. In drawing out this association, Bonaventure develops a theory of the soul and its capacity for transformation in union with God that gives specificit

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Britt, Joshua Edward. "Economies of Salvation in English Anchoritic Texts, 1100-1400." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7751.

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This dissertation explores the different ways medieval authors conceived of anchoritism and solitary life by focusing on three important phases of the movement which are represented by Wulfric of Haselbury, Christina of Markyate, and fourteenth-century mystics. It is grounded in the medieval English anchoritic literature that was produced by religious scholars between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. Initially, lacking a tradition of their own and a language to articulate the anchoritic experience, medieval hagiographers borrowed the desert imagery from the story of the early fathers who

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McCullough, Eleanor G. ""Except you ravish me" [microform] : the images of Christ as courtly knight, bridegroom, and mother of the soul as woven through the religious love lyric "In a valey of this restles mynde" /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p048-0326.

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Neto, José Carlos de Lima. "A mística de Boosco deleitoso." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2014. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=6958.

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O misticismo na Idade Média pode ser entendido como uma prática de espiritualidade que confirma a legitimidade da experiência íntima do ser humano com a divindade e desempenha uma função importante neste período histórico: ser um modo para se alcançar a relação direta e individual com Deus, num momento em que a instituição religiosa buscava a uniformização da fé, extirpando muitas práticas heterodoxas (heresias). Todavia, a mística se impõe como uma evolução natural da espiritualidade cristã no medievo ocidental, que estava submergida na razão (teologia), possibilitando ao indivíduo uma expres

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Koelliker, Lee. "For knowledge and love the mystical experience of Suhrawardi and San Juan de la Cruz /." Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University, 2009. http://dcoll.brandeis.edu/handle/10192/23233.

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Kirakosian, Racha. "Schrift- und Schreibmystik : Christina von Hane." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:435af122-cc51-4f02-ac75-189227b104e5.

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The subject of my thesis is a little-studied hagiographical work that gives important insights into rewriting processes and their significance in medieval textual culture. The anonymous Life of Christina of Hane, a thirteenth-century Premonstratensian nun from the Palatinate, is an example of bridal mysticism which combines the medieval tradition of the reception of the Song of Songs with hagiographic elements. A codicological and palaeographical analysis of the only manuscript shows it to be a sixteenth-century copy, but the type of mysticism and the theological questions that it discusses su

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Goldstein, Benjamin Gordon Mark. "The repetition of originality : on the question of association between late antique 'Gnostics' and the medieval Kabbalah : an argument for a revised methodology." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b4cbb8d5-2be1-433a-9bad-b6b82c568f76.

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This thesis aims to provide a critique of the conclusions of Gershom Scholem regarding the potential for ‘Gnostic’-Kabbalistic filiation, and to establish whether, in light of the available evidence, Scholem’s arguments (which have yet, to my mind, to be sufficiently challenged) can be reasonably supported. I strive to offer an arguably clearer definition of the relevant taxonomic terms than is often presented in scholarly analyses of this question, whilst also arguing for the applicability to this debate of certain pertinent methodological approaches drawn from the wider school of comparative

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Niggemann, Andrew John. "Martin Luther's Hebrew in mid-career : the Minor Prophets translation." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/277415.

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This dissertation provides a comprehensive account of Martin Luther’s Hebrew translation in his academic mid-career. Apart from the Psalms, no book of the Hebrew Bible has yet been examined in any comprehensive manner in terms of Luther’s Hebrew translation. Moreover, research to date has predominantly focused on either ascertaining Luther’s personal Hebrew skills, or on identifying his sources for Hebrew knowledge. This dissertation furthers the scholarly understanding of Luther’s Hebrew by examining his Minor Prophets translation, one of the final pieces of his first complete translation of

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Norris, Laura Sharon. "Love of God and Love of Neighbor: Thomistic Virtue of Charity in Catherine of Siena's Dialogue." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1413228274.

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Flavin, Christopher Michael. "The Self, the Church, and Medieval Identities: The Evolution of the Individual in Medieval Literature." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/335.

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This dissertation examines the construction of literary identities by medieval women, recognizable as an authorial voice that is distinct from those of her contemporaries yet congruent with the gender norms and expectations of her contemporary culture, in both religious and secular literatures from late antiquity through the waning of the Middle Ages. The argument posited here is that texts authored by women, as informed by concurrent male texts and the literary traditions in which individual authors seek to participate, can be read as a taxonomy of responses to the traditions individual autho

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Cvetković, Carmen Angela. "Seeking the Face of God : a study on Augustine's reception in the mystical thought of Bernard of Clairvaux and William of St. Thierry." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1213.

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The present thesis examines the way in which two twelfth century authors, the Cistercian monks, Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153) and William of St. Thierry (c. 1080-1148), used Augustine (354-430) in the articulation of their mystical thought. The approach to this subject takes into account the fact that in the works of all these medieval authors the “mystical” element is inescapably entangled with their theological discourse and that an accurate understanding of their views on the soul’s direct encounter with God cannot be achieved without a discussion of their theology. This thesis posits th

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Niehus, Patrick. "Hieronymus Bosch, St Anthony and the mystics : the interaction of art and late medieval piety /." Title page, and introduction only, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arn6657.pdf.

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Bradbury, Rosalene Clare. "Identifying the Classical Theologia Crucis and in this Light Karl Barth's Modern Theology of the Cross." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/4261.

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This dissertation is presented in two parts. It first identifies the shape and content of an ancient system of Christian thought predicated on the theology of the cross of Jesus Christ, and proposes the marks typifying its theologians. Over against the ensuing hermeneutic it next finds the project of twentieth century Swiss theologian Karl Barth to exhibit many of the defining characteristics of this system, and Barth himself to be fairly deemed a modern theologian of the cross. He crucially recovers, reshapes and reasserts the classical theologia crucis as a modern theological instrument,

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Amaral, Maria José Caldeira do. "Eros e Ágape - Minne: o cúmulo do amor na luz fluente da deidade - das flieBende Licht der Gottheit de Mechthild de Magdeburg." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2008. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/2075.

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Souza, Adriana Andrade de. "Entre o um e o dois: Mestre Eckhart e o aberto da Abgeschiedenheit." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 2012. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/1901.

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Leech, Mary Elizabeth. "The Rhetoric of the Body: A Study of Body Imagery and Rhetorical Structure in Medieval Literature." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1029156317.

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Maroney, Fr Simon Mary of the Cross M. Carm. "Mary, Summa Contemplatrix in Denis the Carthusian." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1620301036422259.

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Clement, Claire Kathleen. "Processing piety and the materiality of spiritual mission at Syon Abbey, 1415-1539." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2016. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/269847.

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This dissertation examines the intersection of spiritual values and material life at Syon Abbey, a wealthy Brigittine double monastery in late medieval England. As an institution it was, paradoxically, directed primarily toward an evangelical goal, while being focused on contemplative women who were strictly enclosed. In this dissertation, I assert that this apparent contradiction was resolved through a high degree of collaboration between the abbey’s religious women and men. I argue that Brigittine monasticism, and that of Syon in particular, was uniquely attuned to metaphors and meanings of

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Kempster, John Hugh. "Richard Rolle, Emendatio vitae: Amendinge of Lyf, a Middle English translation, edited from Dublin, Trinity College, MS 432." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2578.

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Emendatio vitae was the most widely copied of all Richard Rolle’s writings in fourteenth and fifteenth-century England, and yet in modern scholarship this important work and its early audience have received comparatively little scholarly attention. My aim has been to address this lacuna by producing an edition of one of the seven Middle English translations of the text - Amendinge of Lyf - with notes and glossary. In an introductory study I adopt a dual focus: Rolle’s intended audience, and the actual early readers of this particular Middle English translation. Firstly, I conclude that Rolle m

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Macedo, Cecilia Cintra Cavaleiro de. "Metafísica, mística e linguagem na obra de Schcomo IBN Gabirol (Avicebron): uma abordagem bergsoniana." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2006. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1995.

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Sinha, Jayita. ""An ant swallowed the sun" : women mystics in medieval Maharashtra and medieval England." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/30527.

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This project examines mystical discourse in medieval India and medieval England as a site for the construction of new images of women and the feminine. I study the poems of three women mystics from western India, Muktabai (c. 1279-1297), Janabai (c. 1270-1350) and Bahinabai (c. 1628-1700) in conjunction with the prose accounts of the two most celebrated women mystics of late medieval England, Julian of Norwich (c. 1343-after 1413) and Margery Kempe (c. 1373-after 1438). My principal areas of inquiry are: self-authorizing strategies, conceptions of divinity, and the treatment of the domestic. I

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Hamilton, Barbara E. "Vision and revision the female mystics as writers in late medieval Northern Europe /." 2009. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000051354.

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Cedillo, Christina. "Commonplace Divinity: Feminine Topoi in the Rhetoric of Medieval Women Mystics." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-10163.

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This dissertation examines the works of five medieval women mystics—Hildegard of Bingen, Hadewijch of Brabant, Angela of Foligno, Birgitta of Sweden, and Julian of Norwich—to argue that these writers used feminine topoi, commonplace images of women symbolizing complex themes, to convey authority based on embodied experience that could not be claimed by their male associates. The lens used to study their works is rhetorical analysis informed by a feminist recuperative objective, one concerned with identifying effective rhetorical strategies useful to many women and men who have traditionally be

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Barbetti, Claire. "Ekphrastic Medieval visions a new discussion in ekphrasis and interarts theory /." 2009. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/etd,118984.

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Bussey, Francesca Caroline. "'The World on the End of a Reed": Marguerite Porete and the annihilation of an identity in medieval and modern representations – a reassessment." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3875.

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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>This thesis presents a new assessment of the identity and historical significance of Marguerite Porete, burned for heresy in Paris in 1310, and reconnects her to a vigorous, lay, discourse community that threatened the authority of the later medieval church. The thesis argues that a bilateral annihilation of Porete as an historical subject has been brought about by medieval and modern representations, and that this has served to obscure the presence of a subaltern religious discourse in the period. The historiography of Porete has followed distinctive stages of de

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Fresen, Patricia Anne. "Self-knowledge in the writings of Catherine of Siena." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16811.

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This thesis is a study of self-knowledge in the writings of Catherine of Siena. The introductory chapter clarifies the kind of self-knowledge she is describing, viz. metaphysical self-knowledge which, in the case of mystics such as Catherine, blossoms into mystical self-knowledge. Catherine is then situated within the framework of her own era. A survey of catherinian literature follows. Since her major symbol for self-knowledge is the cell, the concept of the cell in the Church tradition of the West, and its influence on Catherine, is explored. The major aspect of the enquiry is the tra

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King, Evan. "Bonum non est in deo: On the Indistinction of the One and the Exclusion of the Good in Meister Eckhart." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/15316.

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Meister Eckhart exhibits an unprecedented confidence in the transcendental way of thought in medieval philosophy. Eckhart, unlike his predecessors, identifies being as such (ens commune) and God, allowing the most primary determinations metaphysics – ‘being,’ ‘one,’ ‘true,’ ‘good,’ – to function as both metaphysical and theological first principles. Eckhart placed them at the head of his projected Tripartite Opus, a vast work of quaestiones and commentaries whose intelligibility, he insists, requires the prior foundation of a supposed series of a thousand axioms. The table of contents remains,

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Desjardins, Pierre-Luc. "Être et image : une approche de la notion de sujet chez Maître Eckhart." Thèse, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/10706.

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Le présent mémoire constitue une tentative de circonscrire - par l’étude d’un corpus textuel principalement emprunté à l’œuvre vernaculaire (allemande) de Maître Eckhart de Hochheim (1260-1328) – le rôle joué par certains motifs conceptuels caractérisant la notion moderne de sujet-agent au sein de la pensée de ce philosophe, théologien et prédicateur. Plus précisément, il y est question de déterminer en quoi le « je » (ich) décrit en plusieurs lieux textuels de l’œuvre d’Eckhart présente les caractères d’autonomie et de transparence à soi qui sont l’apanage de la subjectivité telle que la conç

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"Childbirth and Midwifery in the Religious Rhetoric of England, 1300-1450." Doctoral diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.24768.

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abstract: This dissertation focuses on the connections between childbirth and spirituality in fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century England. It argues that scholastic interest in conception and procreation led to a proliferation of texts mentioning obstetrics and gynecology, and that this attention to women's medicine and birth spread from the universities to the laity. This dissertation contends that there is interdependence between spiritual and physical health in late medieval English religious culture, correlated with and perhaps caused by an increasing fascination with materialism and w

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Pingel, Lee Ann. "With my body I thee worship embodiment theology and trinitarian anthropology in the works of four medieval women mystics /." 2004. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/pingel%5Flee%5Fa%5F200412%5Fma.

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Reid, Heather A. "The Storie of Asneth and its literary relations: the Bride of Christ tradition in late Medieval England." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3518.

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This is a study of the fifteenth-century, “Storie of Asneth,” a late-medieval English translation of a Jewish Hellenistic romance about the Patriarch, Joseph, and his Egyptian wife, Asneth (also spelled Aseneth, Asenath). Belonging to the collection of stories known as The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and derived from Jewish Midrash, the story was widely read among medieval religious in England in Latin before being translated into the vernacular for devotional purposes. Part of this study considers and identifies the aristocratic female patron (Elizabeth Berkeley) and author (John Walton) o

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