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Author | : Samuel Fanous |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2011-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521853435 |
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This book is an excellent introduction to the individuals, events and currents which shaped medieval English mystical texts.
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Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Mysticism |
ISBN | : 9781139801256 |
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The widespread view that 'mystical' activity in the Middle Ages was a rarefied enterprise of a privileged spiritual elite has led to isolation of the medieval 'mystics' into a separate, narrowly defined category. Taking the opposite view, this book shows how individual mystical experience, such as those recorded by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, is rooted in, nourished and framed by the richly distinctive spiritual contexts of the period. Arranged by sections corresponding to historical developments, it explores the primary vernacular texts, their authors, and the contexts that formed the expression and exploration of mystical experiences in medieval England. This is an excellent, insightful introduction to medieval English mystical texts, their authors, readers and communities. Featuring a guide to further reading and a chronology, the Companion offers an accessible overview for students of literature, history and theology.
Author | : Samuel Fanous |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2011-05-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139827669 |
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The widespread view that 'mystical' activity in the Middle Ages was a rarefied enterprise of a privileged spiritual elite has led to isolation of the medieval 'mystics' into a separate, narrowly defined category. Taking the opposite view, this book shows how individual mystical experience, such as those recorded by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, is rooted in, nourished and framed by the richly distinctive spiritual contexts of the period. Arranged by sections corresponding to historical developments, it explores the primary vernacular texts, their authors, and the contexts that formed the expression and exploration of mystical experiences in medieval England. This is an excellent, insightful introduction to medieval English mystical texts, their authors, readers and communities. Featuring a guide to further reading and a chronology, the Companion offers an accessible overview for students of literature, history and theology.
Author | : Amy Hollywood |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2012-09-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521863651 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism is a multi-authored interdisciplinary guide to the study of Christian mysticism, with an emphasis on the 3rd through the 17th centuries. Written by leading authorities and younger scholars from a range of disciplines, the volume both provides a clear introduction to the Christian mystical life and articulates a bold new approach to the study of mysticism.
Author | : Lloyd Ridgeon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107018307 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Sufism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book traces the evolution of Sufism from the formative period to the present.
Author | : Barry A. Windeatt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 1994-09-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521327407 |
Download English Mystics of the Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First collection of late medieval English mystical writing, which has been newly edited with notes and glossary.
Author | : Vincent Gillespie |
Publisher | : I.B. Tauris Short Histories |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781780763392 |
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England has one of the richest and most distinctive histories of medieval mystical experience in all Europe. Resonant echoes of that history linger at places like Walsingham and Norwich. The shrine of the Holy House, destroyed at the Reformation, became one of the leading pilgrimage centres of the Christian west. It emerged out of the visions of Richeldis de Faverches, an eleventh-century Saxon noblewoman, who believed she had been instructed by the Virgin to build in Walsingham a replica of Nazareth's famous hut of the nativity. Twenty miles away in Carrow, a village just outside Norwich's city walls, the solitary anchorite Julian later explored her own profound intimations of divinity in her sensuous Revelations of Divine Love. Both women were moved profoundly to change their lives through a direct sense of personal encounter with the transcendent. They exemplify many religious and spiritual figures in England who claim to have experienced the mystery of God through ascetic discipline and contemplative longing. Vincent Gillespie here introduces some of the greatest mystics of English history: Julian; Ailred of Rievaulx; poetic visionary Richard Rolle; the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing; charismatic Margery Kempe; and Walter Hilton. He vividly places these enigmatic but always fascinating thinkers in the wider context of medieval Christian contemplation.
Author | : Peter Adamson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2004-12-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107494699 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Philosophy written in Arabic and in the Islamic world represents one of the great traditions of Western philosophy. Inspired by Greek philosophical works and the indigenous ideas of Islamic theology, Arabic philosophers from the ninth century onwards put forward ideas of great philosophical and historical importance. This collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in Arabic philosophy, provides an introduction to the field by way of chapters devoted to individual thinkers (such as al-Farabi, Avicenna and Averroes) or groups, especially during the 'classical' period from the ninth to the twelfth centuries. It also includes chapters on areas of philosophical inquiry across the tradition, such as ethics and metaphysics. Finally, it includes chapters on later Islamic thought, and on the connections between Arabic philosophy and Greek, Jewish, and Latin philosophy. The volume also includes a useful bibliography and a chronology of the most important Arabic thinkers.
Author | : Thomas Williams |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2018-12-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107167744 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Ethics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offers historical and topical chapters on the whole range of medieval ethical thought in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic philosophy.
Author | : Larry Scanlon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2009-06-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139827375 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100–1500 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nation's leading literary language in the fourteenth century and the advent of print in the fifteenth. This Companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history of literature in English. Exploring the period's key authors - Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain-Poet, Margery Kempe, among many - and genres - plays, romances, poems and epics - the book offers an overview of the riches of medieval writing. The essays map out the flourishing field of medieval literary studies and point towards new directions and approaches. Designed to be accessible to students, the book also features a chronology and guide to further reading.