From Virile Woman to WomanChrist : : Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature / / Barbara Newman.
Why did hagiographers of the late Middle Ages praise mothers for abandoning small children? How did a group of female mystics come to define themselves as "apostles to the dead" and end by challenging God's right to damn? Why did certain heretics around 1300 venerate a woman as the Ho...
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Newman, Barbara, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut From Virile Woman to WomanChrist : Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature / Barbara Newman. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011] ©1995 1 online resource (424 p.) : 8 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The Middle Ages Series Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Flaws in the Golden Bowl: Gender and Spiritual Formation in the Twelfth Century -- 2. Authority, Authenticity, and the Repression of Heloise -- 3. "Crueel Corage": Child Sacrifice and the Maternal Martyr in Hagiography and Romance -- 4. On the Threshold of the Dead: Purgatory, Hell, and Religious Women -- 5. La mystique courtoise: Thirteenth- Century Beguines and the Art of Love -- 6. Woman Spirit, Woman Pope -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Appendix A: Religious Literature of Formation, 1075-1225 -- Appendix E: Glossary of Religious Women -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Why did hagiographers of the late Middle Ages praise mothers for abandoning small children? How did a group of female mystics come to define themselves as "apostles to the dead" and end by challenging God's right to damn? Why did certain heretics around 1300 venerate a woman as the Holy Spirit incarnate and another as the Angelic Pope?In From Virile Woman to WomanChrist, Barbara Newman asks these and other questions to trace a gradual and ambiguous transition in the gender strategies of medieval religious women. An egalitarian strain in early Christianity affirmed that once she asserted her commitment to Christ through a vow of chastity, monastic profession, or renunciation of family ties, a woman could become "virile," or equal to a man. While the ideal of the "virile woman" never disappeared, another ideal slowly evolved in medieval Christianity. By virtue of some gender-related trait-spotless virginity, erotic passion, the capacity for intense suffering, the ability to imagine a feminine aspect of the Godhead-a devout woman could be not only equal, but superior to men; without becoming male, she could become a "womanChrist," imitating and representing Christ in uniquely feminine ways.Rooted in women's concrete aspirations and sufferings, Newman's "womanChrist" model straddles the bounds of orthodoxy and heresy to illuminate the farther reaches of female religious behavior in the Middle Ages. From Virile Woman to WomanChrist will generate compelling discussion in the fields of medieval literature and history, history of religion, theology, and women's studies. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020) Church history Middle Ages, 600-1500. Literature, Medieval History and criticism. Women in Christianity History. Women in literature History. Gender Studies. Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Religion. Religious Studies. Women's Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook-Package Literature 9783110413540 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) 9783110442526 print 9780812215458 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812200263 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812200263 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812200263.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Flaws in the Golden Bowl: Gender and Spiritual Formation in the Twelfth Century -- 2. Authority, Authenticity, and the Repression of Heloise -- 3. "Crueel Corage": Child Sacrifice and the Maternal Martyr in Hagiography and Romance -- 4. On the Threshold of the Dead: Purgatory, Hell, and Religious Women -- 5. La mystique courtoise: Thirteenth- Century Beguines and the Art of Love -- 6. Woman Spirit, Woman Pope -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Appendix A: Religious Literature of Formation, 1075-1225 -- Appendix E: Glossary of Religious Women -- Works Cited -- Index |
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