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245 00 $aMedieval women's visionary literature /$c[edited by] Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff.
260 0 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1986.
300 $axii, 402 p. ;$c25 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
504 $aBibliography: p. 373-391.
505 0 $aIntroduction : the visionary tradition in women's writing : dialogue and autobiography -- I. Women in the early church : St. Perpetua and St. Macrina -- II. Holy women and the christianizing of Europe : Hugeberc of Hildesheim, St. Leoba, and Hrotsvit of Gandersheim -- III. Visionaries of the early twelfth century : Christina of Markyate, Hildegard of Bingen, and St. Elisabeth of Schonau -- IV. New styles of feminine spirituality-the Beguine movement : Marie d'Oignies, Christina Mirabilis, Hadewijch of Brabant, and Beatrijs of Nazareth -- V. Beguine spirituality and the convent of Helfta : Mechthild of Magdeburg and St. Gertrude the great -- VI. Women and spirituality in medieval Italy : St. Clare of Assisi, St. Agnes of Assisi, St. Umiltá of Faenza, Blessed Angela of Foligno, and St. Catherine of Siena -- VII. Women, heresy, and holiness in early fourteenth-century France : Na prous Bonetta, Marguerite d'Oingt, and Marguerite Porete -- VIII. Women writers of the late fourteenth century-seeking models : Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Dona Leonor Lopez de Cordoba, and Christine de Pizan -- IX. Individual and collective reformation at the end of the Middle Ages : Magdalena Beutler of Freiburg and Mary of Nijmeghen.
520 $aThese pages capture a thousand years of medieval women's visionary writing, from late antiquity to the 15th century. Written by hermits, recluses, wives, mothers, wandering teachers, founders of religious communities, and reformers, the selections reveal how medieval women felt about their lives, the kind of education they received, how they perceived the religion of their time, and why ascetic life attracted them.
650 0 $aWomen$zEurope$vBiography.
650 0 $aChristian biography$zEurope.
650 0 $aChristian literature, English$zEurope.
650 0 $aSpiritual life$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500.
650 0 $aSpiritual life$xChristianity.
650 0 $aChristian women$xReligious life$zEurope.
700 1 $aPetroff, Elizabeth.
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