1st Edition
The Mystical Language of Sensation in the Later Middle Ages
By Gordon Rudy
Copyright 2003
192 Pages
4 Color Illustrations
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Routledge
204 Pages
4 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
4 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
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First Published in 2002. This book is about the way medieval authors wrote about union with God and how they used language that refers to the senses to articulate their ideas about how a person can be one with God. Rudy argues that such explicit concepts of the spiritual senses are not sharply distinct from the ideas implicit in broader usage of sensory language in theological writings. These... Read more
Chapter 1 Sensory Language and Theological Concepts; Chapter 2 Other Senses; Chapter 3 Bernard of Clairvaux; Chapter 4 Hadewijch; Chapter 5 Echoes and Ambiguities;
Biography
Gordon Rudy
