| List of Illustrations |
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| Preface |
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| 1. God and the Goddesses |
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1 | (50) |
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St. Francis and Lady Poverty |
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3 | (7) |
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10 | (2) |
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The Servant and Eternal Wisdom |
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12 | (2) |
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Will and Lady Holy Church |
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14 | (5) |
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Christine and the Female Trinity |
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19 | (5) |
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Vision, Imagination, and Belief |
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24 | (11) |
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35 | (16) |
| 2. Natura (I): Nature and Nature's God |
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51 | (39) |
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The Birth of Nature: Bernard Silvestris's Cosmographia |
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55 | (11) |
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Nature's Fall and Lament: De planctu Naturae |
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66 | (7) |
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Nature as Redeemed Redeemer: Anticlaudianus |
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73 | (13) |
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A Hildegardian Coda: Nature or Nature's God? |
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86 | (4) |
| 3. Natura (II): Goddess of the Normative |
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90 | (48) |
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"Ganymede and Helen" and Nature's Grammar |
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91 | (6) |
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In Nature's Forge: From Alan of Lille to Jean de Meun |
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97 | (14) |
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Nature at the Court of King Richard: Chaucer's Parlement of Fowles |
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111 | (4) |
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Nature and Culture: Christine's Revisionist Myths |
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115 | (7) |
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Testing the Norms: Nature, Nurture, Silence |
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122 | (12) |
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134 | (4) |
| 4. Love Divine, All Loves Excelling |
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138 | (52) |
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Caritas and Amor: The Twelfth Century |
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140 | (11) |
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Love's Violence: The Thirteenth Century |
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151 | (18) |
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The Beguine as Knight of Love: Hadewijch's Stanzaic Poems |
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169 | (12) |
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Dante, Beatrice, and l'amor che move it sole |
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181 | (9) |
| 5. Sapientia: The Goddess Incarnate |
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190 | (55) |
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Liturgical Wisdom: Poised Between Christ and Mary |
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194 | (12) |
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Devotional Wisdom: Henry Suso and His Legacy |
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206 | (16) |
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Contemplative Wisdom: Julian of Norwich |
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222 | (12) |
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Esoteric Wisdom: The Alchemical Virgin |
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234 | (11) |
| 6. Maria: Holy Trinity as Holy Family |
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245 | (46) |
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247 | (7) |
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Divinizing the Virgin: The Marian Trinity in Art |
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254 | (19) |
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Enacting the Virgin: The Lability of Female Roles |
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273 | (10) |
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Domesticating the Virgin: The Invention of the Holy Family |
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283 | (8) |
| 7. Goddesses and the One God |
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291 | (38) |
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294 | (10) |
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The Gender of God and the Limits of Intolerance |
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304 | (13) |
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Medieval Christianity as an Inclusive Monotheism |
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317 | (12) |
| List of Abbreviations |
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329 | (2) |
| Notes |
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331 | (78) |
| Works Cited |
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409 | (28) |
| Index |
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