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Between Exaltation and Infamy - Female Mystics in the Golden Age of Spain (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,322
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Between Exaltation and Infamy - Female Mystics in the Golden Age of Spain (Paperback): Stephen Haliczer

Between Exaltation and Infamy - Female Mystics in the Golden Age of Spain (Paperback)

Stephen Haliczer

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The Counter-Reformation saw an upsurge of feminine religious enthusiasm without parallel since medieval times. Inspired by new translations of the lives of the saints, devout women all over Catholic Europe sought to imitate these "athletes of Christ" through extremes of self-abnegation, physical mortification and devotion. Just as in the Middle Ages, women's piety expressed itself especially in mystical experiences manifested in such phenomena as visions, revelations, voices, stigmata and ecstasies. This book offers a comprehensive look at this Golden Age of women's mysticism as it flourished in 16th- and 17th-century Spain, where it almost took on the character of a mass movement. For his study Haliczer draws on 15 cases brought by the Inquisition against women accused of "feigned sanctity" and on 30 biographies and autobiographies of women mystics. By examining their lives, Haliczer seeks to understand the forces that caused these individuals to choose a life of self-abnegation and ecstatic worship. Overall, he shows how mysticism provided women with a way to transcend, rather than to disrupt, the control of the male-dominated Church.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2002
First published: August 2002
Authors: Stephen Haliczer (Presidential Research Professor of History)
Dimensions: 236 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-514863-3
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian religious experience > Christian mysticism
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian religious experience > Christian mysticism
Books > Christianity > Christian Religious Experience > Christian mysticism
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LSN: 0-19-514863-0
Barcode: 9780195148633

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