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Metaphor, Making and Mysticism: Radical Re-Imaginings in Language and Art book cover

1st Edition

Metaphor, Making and Mysticism Radical Re-Imaginings in Language and Art

Edited By Sheila Gallagher, Louise Nelstrop, Lydia Shahan Copyright 2026
290 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume focuses on the interplay between metaphor, making, and mysticism and sheds new light on the power of the metaphorical and creative dimensions of the mystical for the twenty-first century. It explores the ways a variety of mystical writers deal with metaphor and image by bringing together chapters from interdisciplinary vantage points – theological, philosophical, historical, artistic,... Read more

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

 

Editors’ Preface

Louise Nelstrop, Sheila Gallagher, Lydia Shahan

 

Introduction

1. Eriugena’s Dream and Dreaming with Eriugena

Simone Kearney in Conversation with Pol Herrmann

 

Part One: Metaphor and Mysticism

 

2. Metaphors and/or Negations in Mystical Literature: Considerations from the Work of John of Ruusbroec

Rob Faesen (Translated by John Arblaster)

 

3. Negotiating Speech and Silence in the Poetry of Rumi

Amira El-Zein

 

4. Metaphor Users in Late Middle English Women’s Mystical Texts

Fumiko Yoshikawa

 

5. What Are We to Make of Mysticism? 

Andrew Prevot

 

Part Two: Eriugena as Master of Metaphor, Mysticism and Making

 

6. Eriugena and Celtic Mysticism
Richard Kearney

 

7. Cur ‘Nihil’ Vocatur: Eriugena on Divine Non-Being

Dermot Moran

 

8. Eriugena and Emerson on Thinking Nature

Willemien Otten

 

Part Three: Making and Mysticism

 

9. Three-Headed Monster: Trialogue on Monastic Life

Fanny Howe, John (Isaac) Slater and Mark Patrick Hederman in Conversation

 

10. Listening to Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls in Aline Kiner’s La Nuit des Béguines

 Louise Nelstrop And Pol Herrmann

 

11. A Hard and Brutal Mysticism

Brian Treanor

 

12. Pseudonymity and Authorship in the Albertine and Pseudo-Albertine Corpus

Stephen Surh

Epilogue

13. Epilogue: Curating and Designing ‘Metaphor, Making and Mysticism’: An Interview with Grace Caiazza

Grace Caiazza in Conversation with Louise Nelstrop

Index

Biography

Sheila Gallagher is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Art History and Film at Boston College, USA.

Louise Nelstrop is Professor of Church History at the Protestant Theological University in Utrecht, the Netherlands, as well as Director of Studies at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology and a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK.

Lydia Shahan is a doctoral student in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University, USA, where she is also affiliated with the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies.

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