The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England

by Jones, E. A.; Exeter Symposium (2004 : Charney Manor)

• ISBN13: 9781843840077
• ISBN10: 1843840073
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Ds Brewer

Summary

The latest volume of proceedings in the series initiated by Marion Glasscoe in 1980 shares with its predecessors a concentrated focus on the English mystical authors and the reception of their continental contemporaries in medieval England. At the same time, it bears witness to the range of disciplinary approaches - literary, historical, theological, art historical - which are currently bearing fruit in research on the medieval mystical tradition.The thirteen papers include new work on Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, the Cloud-author and the thirteenth-century anchoritic texts; texts connected with Syon Abbey and the Bridgettines; and the reception of Ruusbroec, Eckhart and the continental holy women in England. Among the themes explored are the spirituality of the religious orders; gender, class and mystical discourse; the theological precision of mystical language, and the translatio of the continental mystics into English cultural forms.Contributors: DENISE N. BAKER, ALEXANDRA BARRATT, SUSANNAH MARY CHEWNING, MARLEEN CRE, VASLERIE EDDEN, VINCENT GILLESPIE, DAVID GRIFFITH, A.ANNETTE GRISE, ANN M. HUTCHISON, LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY, KARL HEINZ STEINMETZ, ANNIE SUTHERLAND, NAOE KUKITA YOSHIKAWA. Dr E.A. JONES teaches in the Department of English at the University of Exeter.

Table of Contents

'Oure feyth is groundyd in goddes worde' - Julian of Norwich and the Bible	p. 1
'We are united with God (and God with us?)' : adapting Ruusbroec in The Treatise of Perfection of the Sons of God and The Chastising of God's Children	p. 21
The structure of the soul and the 'Godly Wylle' in Julian of Norwich's Showings	p. 37
'Neb ... sumdeal ilich wummon & neddre is behinden' : reading the monstrous in the anchoritic text	p. 51
Reflections on aspects of the spiritual impact of St. Birgitta, the revelations and the Bridgettine Order in late medieval England	p. 69
Holy women in print : continental female mystics and the English mystical tradition	p. 83
The reception of continental women mystics in fifteenth- and sixteenth- century England : some artistic evidence	p. 97
Discretio spirituum in time : the impact of Julian of Norwich's counsel in the Book of Margery Kempe	p. 119
'Thiself a cros to thiself' : Christ as Signum Impressum in the Cloud-texts against the background of expressionistic christology in late medieval devotional theology	p. 132
'The prophetycal lyf of an heremyte' : Elijah as the model of the contemplative life in The Book of the First Monks	p. 149
'Makedes of me / wrecche pi leofmon & spuse' : mystical desire and visionary consummation	p. 163
Lordship, service and worship in Julian of Norwich	p. 177
'Hid diuinite' : the spirituality of the English Syon Brethren	p. 189
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