The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England

by Exeter Symposium (1992, Dartington Hall, Totnes, England); Glasscoe, Marion

• ISBN13: 9780859913461
• ISBN10: 0859913465
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-07-01
• Publisher: Ds Brewer

Summary

Twelve papers focus on mysticism as an experience and on the work of individual mystics.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Late Fourteenth-Century Cambridge Theology and the English Contemplative Tradition	p. 1
Reflecting Christ: The Role of the Flesh in Walter Hilton and Julian of Norwich	p. 17
Transformational Processes in the Work of Julian of Norwich and Mechthild of Magdeburg	p. 39
The Apophatic Image: The Poetics of Effacement in Julian of Norwich	p. 53
The Trinitarian Hermeneutic in Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Love	p. 79
'Who Has Written This Book?' Visionary Autobiography in Langland's C Text	p. 101
The Mystic Theology of the Thirteenth-Century Mystic, Hadewijch, and its Literary Expression	p. 117
Work and Work Ethics in the Nunnery of Syon Abbey in the Fifteenth Century	p. 129
Syon MS 18 and the Medieval English Mystical Tradition	p. 145
Margery Kempe: A Scandinavian Influence in Medieval England?	p. 163
Transcendence in Death: A Heideggerian Approach to Via Negativa in The Cloud of Unknowing	p. 179
Author(s), Compilers, Scribes and Bible Texts: Did the Cloud-Author Translate The Twelve Patriarchs?	p. 193
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