The Image of Mixed Liquids in Late Medieval Mystical Thought
“It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.” Whatever relevance this gnomic saying of Jorge Luis Borges may have to universal history, it can serve as the motto for the following investigation of the relationship between mysticism and t...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[1971]
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Church history
Year: 1971, Volume: 40, Issue: 4, Pages: 397-411 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | “It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.” Whatever relevance this gnomic saying of Jorge Luis Borges may have to universal history, it can serve as the motto for the following investigation of the relationship between mysticism and the Free Spirit heresy in the later Middle Ages. Scholars are accustomed to regard the socalled heresy of the Free Spirit as sui generis, an aberrant and scandalous religious deviation preached by nihilists, lechers, and megalomaniacs, but this interpretation is not borne out by the sources, as we will see in the story of a simile. |
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| ISSN: | 0009-6407 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Church history
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