Maria Petyt - a Carmelite Mystic in Wartime / / edited by Joseph Chalmers [and three others].

• Superior document: Radboud Studies in Humanities Series ; Volume 4
• TeilnehmendeR: Chalmers, Joseph,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Radboud studies in humanities ; Volume 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 292 pages) :; illustrations, 1 colour map; digital, PDF file(s).

Based on the discovery of an unknown Latin manuscript, Maria Petyt - A Carmelite Mystic in Wartime provides surprising new information about the seventeenth century Flemish mystic Maria Petyt (1623-1677) who wrote many letters to her spiritual director, Michael of St. Augustine.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Elisabeth Hense , Veronie Meeuwsen and Esther van de Vate -- 1 Maria Petyt – A Short Biography / Esther van de Vate -- 2 Maria Petyt against the Background of the Political and Religious Situation in Flanders in the Seventeenth Century / Esther van de Vate -- 3 Daily Life at the Hermitage in Mechelen at the Time of Maria Petyt (1657–1677) / Michel van Meerbeeck -- 4 Living as a Spiritual Virgin and Claiming Prophetic Authority: The Parallel Lives of Maria Petyt and Antoinette Bourignon / Mirjam de Baar -- 5 Some Notes on the History of the Latin Manuscript of the Life of Maria Petyt by Michael of St. Augustine / Giovanni Grosso -- 6 ‘Oh, How Spiritual Directors are Obliged to Remain Silent!’ Michael’s Redaction of the Writings of Maria Petyt: Some Initial Findings / Esther van de Vate -- 7 The Latin Manuscript about the Dutch War and Its Translation in English / Veronie Meeuwsen (ed.) -- 8 Maria Petyt’s Support of the French King / Veronie Meeuwsen -- 9 The Spirituality of Teresa of Avila and the Latin Manuscript about the Dutch War (folios 30r–49v) / Elisabeth Hense -- 10 The Prophetic Spirituality of Maria Petyt in the Latin Manuscript about the Dutch War / Anne-Marie Bos -- Epilogue / Joseph Chalmers -- Index / Joseph Chalmers , Elisabeth Hense , Veronie Meeuwsen and Esther van de Vate.