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From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature Book

From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature
From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature, 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 1, From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature has a rating of 4 stars
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  • From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature
  • Written by author Barbara Newman
  • Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., January 1995
  • 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 1
  • "Barbara Newman has written an erudite and wonderful book. . . . From Virile Woman to WomanChrist should be required reading in every university-level women's studies course."—Caroline Walker Bynum, The Catholic Historical Review
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Introduction1
Ch. 1Flaws in the Golden Bowl: Gender and Spiritual Formation in the Twelfth Century19
Ch. 2Authority, Authenticity, and the Repression of Heloise46
Ch. 3"Crueel Corage": Child Sacrifice and the Maternal Martyr in Hagiography and Romance76
Ch. 4On the Threshold of the Dead: Purgatory, Hell, and Religious Women108
Ch. 5La mystique courtoise: Thirteenth-Century Beguines and the Art of Love137
Excursus 1. Hadewijch and Abelard168
Excursus 2. Gnostics, Free Spirits, and "Meister Eckhart's Daughter"172
Ch. 6WomanSpirit, Woman Pope182
Ch. 7Renaissance Feminism and Esoteric Theology: The Case of Cornelius Agrippa224
Epilogue244
List of Abbreviations249
Notes251
Appendix A. Religious Literature of Formation, 1075-1225313
Appendix B. Glossary of Religious Women317
Works Cited321
Index345


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