| Foreword |
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| A Note on citations |
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XIII | |
| I. Introducing the writer |
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1 | (7) |
| II. In pursuit of the historical Hadewijch |
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8 | (5) |
| III. The beguine movement |
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13 | (10) |
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13 | (6) |
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2. From pious woman" to orderly beguine |
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19 | (2) |
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21 | (2) |
| IV. The beguines in conflict |
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23 | (16) |
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1. The pious women" and the clergy |
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24 | (4) |
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2. The community of women and the authorities |
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28 | (4) |
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3. Chastity, poverty and the social order |
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32 | (7) |
| V. Hadewijch the leader of beguines |
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39 | (19) |
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39 | (6) |
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A. Religious "satisfaction" exposed |
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40 | (3) |
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B. Peculiar practices and activism |
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43 | (2) |
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2. Hadewijch writes for her circle |
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45 | (13) |
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A. The Visions: a guideline for the friends |
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45 | (3) |
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B. The Poems in Stanzas edify the community |
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48 | (2) |
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C. Why does Hadewijch write her Letters? |
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50 | (8) |
| VI. Hadewijch's literary-religious position |
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58 | (26) |
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59 | (15) |
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60 | (4) |
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B. William of Saint-Thierry |
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64 | (7) |
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C. Richard of Saint-Victor |
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71 | (3) |
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2. A religious impasse in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries |
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74 | (10) |
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77 | (2) |
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B. The Dionysian spirituals |
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79 | (1) |
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80 | (4) |
| VII. Hadewijch the mystic |
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84 | (12) |
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1. Characteristics of the mystical experience of God |
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84 | (6) |
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2. The mystic's speaking and being silent |
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90 | (6) |
| VIII. Mystic union with God according to Hadewijch |
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96 | (49) |
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98 | (12) |
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98 | (4) |
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102 | (3) |
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105 | (5) |
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2. Want of fruition (ghebreken) |
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110 | (19) |
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A. The demand to satisfy God |
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111 | (4) |
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B. God remains independent and free |
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115 | (7) |
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C. "To live as human beings with his Humaninity" |
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122 | (7) |
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3. Fruition and want of fruition (ghebruken and ghebreken) |
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129 | (16) |
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A. "Satiety and hunger together" |
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130 | (3) |
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B. "Tasting Man and God in one knowledge" |
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133 | (4) |
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C. At work in the world while remaining "undivided" |
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137 | (8) |
| Conclusion |
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145 | (2) |
| Bibliography |
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147 | |
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