Hadewijch: Writer - Beguine - Love Mystic:9789042913929:MOMMAERS P. :eCampus.com

Foreword

A Note on citations

XIII

I. Introducing the writer

(7)

II. In pursuit of the historical Hadewijch

(5)

III. The beguine movement

(10)

1. Background history

(6)

2. From pious woman" to orderly beguine

(2)

3. Hadewijch the beguine

(2)

IV. The beguines in conflict

(16)

1. The pious women" and the clergy

(4)

2. The community of women and the authorities

(4)

3. Chastity, poverty and the social order

(7)

V. Hadewijch the leader of beguines

(19)

1. Internal conflicts

(6)

A. Religious "satisfaction" exposed

(3)

B. Peculiar practices and activism

(2)

2. Hadewijch writes for her circle

(13)

A. The Visions: a guideline for the friends

(3)

B. The Poems in Stanzas edify the community

(2)

C. Why does Hadewijch write her Letters?

(8)

VI. Hadewijch's literary-religious position

(26)

1. Hadewijch's sources

(15)

A. Bernard of Clairvaux

(4)

B. William of Saint-Thierry

(7)

C. Richard of Saint-Victor

(3)

2. A religious impasse in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

(10)

A. Peter Abelard

(2)

B. The Dionysian spirituals

(1)

C. Hadewijch's answer

(4)

VII. Hadewijch the mystic

(12)

1. Characteristics of the mystical experience of God

(6)

2. The mystic's speaking and being silent

(6)

VIII. Mystic union with God according to Hadewijch

(49)

1. Fruition (ghebruken)

(12)

A. The urge of love

(4)

B. The commerce of love

102

(3)

C. The enjoyment of love

105

(5)

2. Want of fruition (ghebreken)

110

(19)

A. The demand to satisfy God

111

(4)

B. God remains independent and free

115

(7)

C. "To live as human beings with his Humaninity"

122

(7)

3. Fruition and want of fruition (ghebruken and ghebreken)

129

(16)

A. "Satiety and hunger together"

130

(3)

B. "Tasting Man and God in one knowledge"

133

(4)

C. At work in the world while remaining "undivided"

137

(8)

Conclusion

145

(2)

Bibliography

147


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