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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2013]
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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