Proving Woman : : Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages /

Proving Woman : : Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages / / Dyan Elliott.

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Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's most sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. Holy women's claims to be in direct communication with God placed them in positions of unprecedented influence. Yet by the end of the Middle Ag...

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Elliott, Dyan,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Sacramental Confession as Proof of Orthodoxy
  • PART 1. Women as Proof of Orthodoxy
  • Chapter Two. The Beguines: A Sponsored Emergence
  • Chapter Three. Elisabeth of Hungary: Between Men
  • PART 2. Inquisitions and Proof
  • Chapter Four. Sanctity, Heresy, and Inquisition
  • Chapter Five. Between Two Deaths: The Living Mystic
  • PART 3. The Discernment of Spirits
  • Chapter Six. Clerical Quibbles
  • Chapter Seven. John Gerson and Joan of Arc
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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