1st Edition
Medieval Mystical Women in the West Growing in the Height of Love
1. Mystical Hagiography in the Thirteenth Century: The Low Countries and Italy
Alessandra Bartolomei Romagnoli
2. Annihilated Women in the Thirteenth Century
Bernard Mcginn
3. Hidden Marks of Leadership: Holy Women and Invisible Stigmata in the Late Middle Ages
Carolyn Muessig
4. ‘Enarrabiliter’: The Separation of Visionary Experience and Communicable Form in Hildegard of Bingen’s Vision Books
Dinah Wouters
5. Gender and Feminine Virtue in Bernard of Clairvaux and Hadewijch
Kenneth Hoyt
6. Kenotic Christology, Poverty, and Annihilation in Clare of Assisi and Angela of Foligno
Michael Hahn
7. Mysticism by the Numbers: Beatrice of Nazareth’s Seven Manners of Love and Ida of Nivelles’ ‘Eight Topics of Contemplation’
Lydia Shahan
8. Spiritual Edifices: Beatrice of Nazareth’s Monastery of the Heart and Agnes Blannbekin’s Urban Stations of Christ
Amanda J. Langley
9. The Mystic as Symbol: Ecstasy as Liturgical Participation in the Vita of Beatrice of Nazareth
Samantha Slaubaugh
10. ‘I Want to Die Living’: The Entanglement of Death and Desire in Mechthild of Magdeburg
Amy Maxey
11. Spiritual Vision in Corporeal Space: The Power of Performative Language in the Mystical Life of Christina of Hane
Racha Kirakosian, Translated by Philip Liston-Kraft
12. Can This Text Still Speak? Reading Julian of Norwich’s Prayer for Illness as (Fully a Part of) a ‘Classic Text’ of Embodied Mysticism
Andrew K. Lee
13. The Theological Virtues, Interiorisation, and Theological Anthropology in The Evangelical Pearl
Rik Van Nieuwenhove
14. The Blood and the Word: The Mystical Speech Acts of Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi
Henry Barrett
Biography
John Arblaster is Associate Professor of the history of spirituality in the Low Countries at the Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp and Assistant Visiting Professo rat the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven.
Rob Faesen is Jesuitica Chair Emeritus at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, and the Francis Xavier Chair at the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology, and is also Professor Emeritus at the Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp.
