Written on the body: corporeality, desire, and the erotic in medieval women’s mystical writing

The dominant interpretation of medieval mystical writing associates women with the body and men with an apophatically-inclined spirituality. This is evidenced in the groundbreaking scholarship of Caroline Walker Bynum, which drew attention to the ‘startling significance’ 1 of the body to female form...

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Main Author: Greenaway-Clarke, Kirsty (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group 2021
In: Theology & sexuality
Year: 2021, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 62-86
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Marguerite, Porète 1250-1310 / Juliana, von Norwich 1340-1413 / Body / Mysticism / Feminist theology / Negative theology
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
FD Contextual theology
KAC Church history 500-1500; Middle Ages
NBE Anthropology
Further subjects:B apophatic theology
B Julian of Norwich (c.1342–c.1416)
B Christian Mysticism
B Marguerite Porete (1250–1310)
B Feminist Theology
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