Promised Bodies: Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women's Mystical Texts (Gender, Theory, and Religion) by Patricia Dailey

Promised Bodies: Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women's Mystical Texts (Gender, Theory, and Religion)

Patricia Dailey

278 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

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In Christianity, the body is a potentially transformative vehicle, and the writings of Hadewijch of Brabant, a thirteenth-century beguine, engage with this tradition in ways both singular to her mysticism and indicative of her theological milieu. ...

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