Promised Bodies: Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women's Mystical Texts. By Patricia Dailey
Patricia Dailey makes bold new claims as to how we should read medieval mystical texts. Basing herself in particular on an analysis of the writings of the beguine Hadewijch of Brabant, Dailey argues that to understand mystical texts, whether authored by men or by women, we must ground ourselves prim...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 781-782 |
| Review of: | Promised bodies (New York, NY : Columbia Univ. Press, 2013) (Leyser, Henrietta)
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| Summary: | Patricia Dailey makes bold new claims as to how we should read medieval mystical texts. Basing herself in particular on an analysis of the writings of the beguine Hadewijch of Brabant, Dailey argues that to understand mystical texts, whether authored by men or by women, we must ground ourselves primarily in the works of St Paul and St Augustine: ‘Rather than seeking to isolate the body as an essentially feminine instrument for articulation in medieval mysticism, [we need] to reconfigure it according to its inner counterpart and the orientation of the soul’ (p. 8). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flu119 |