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The Mystical Gesture - Essays on Medieval and Early Modern Spiritual Culture in Honor of Mary E.Giles (Hardcover)
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The Mystical Gesture - Essays on Medieval and Early Modern Spiritual Culture in Honor of Mary E.Giles (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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This title was first published in 2000: These essays ecplore the
spiritual culture shared by texts and writers in Western Europe
from the 13th to 17th centuries; the visionaries, mystics and nuns
who were poets or scholars and the creative writers who drew on
spiritual themes. The topics range chronologically from the late
13th to late 17th centuries and geographically from Germany,
England, Italy, France, Spain and New Spain (Mexico), though the
volume's centre is the spiritual culture of 16th-century Spain.
Common concerns of each essay are the exploration of spiritual
culture; how some texts and writers shape expectations attending
the life of the spirit; and how they are in turn shaped by them.
The sub-themes many of the essays share are the gendering of
spiritual culture and the relationship between traditional literary
genres like poetry and drama and spiritual discourse. Each text or
spiritual figure covered here has a distinctive spiritual voice - a
mystical gesture - that contributes an individual mysticism to the
common spiritual culture they all share. Each scholar in her or his
own way defines this mystical gesture. The essays analyze Mechthild
von Magdburg, "Piers Plowman", "The Second Shepherds' Play",
Catherine of Siena, Bernardo de Laredo, Teresa of Avila, Alonso de
la Fuente, Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza, Cecilian de nacimiento,
Margaret Mary Alaconque and Sor Juana.
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