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German Mysticism and the Politics of Culture (Hardcover, New edition)
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German Mysticism and the Politics of Culture (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: American University Studies, 303
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Probing deeply into texts by and about prominent Christian mystics,
religious authors, and saints, German Mysticism and the Politics of
Culture challenges the reader to rethink the medieval past as a
contemporary presence. This "presence of the past" shapes memory of
place, valorizes the trope of ecstatic sexual union as death, and
continues the religious marginalization of female voice and
authority. The chapters focus on the works and lives of Hadewijch,
Marie d'Oignies, Dionysius of Ryckel, Heinrich Seuse, Margarete
Ebner, St. Elisabeth, Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, and the stigmatic
Therese Neumann. Part One of the volume examines the dynamics of
cultural memory and forgetting as they relate to issues of
sexuality, female authority, and national politics; Part Two
explores themes of love and death, erasure and displacement.
Medieval Christian mysticism, the author argues, cannot be narrated
as a story of great cultural accomplishment but, rather, as a
fundamentally agonistic scenario shaped by actors whose impact
still affects us today.
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