Promised Bodies : : Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women's Mystical Texts / / Patricia Dailey.
In the Christian tradition, especially in the works of Paul, Augustine, and the exegetes of the Middle Ages, the body is a twofold entity consisting of inner and outer persons that promises to find its true materiality in a time to come. A potentially transformative vehicle, it is a dynamic mirror t...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Gender, Theory, and Religion
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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