Visions and Longings Medieval Women Mystics

Name: Visions and Longings Medieval Women Mystics
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ISBN: 9781570623141

ISBN-10: 1570623147

ISBN-13: 9781570623141

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Authors: Monica Furlong

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The women mystics of medieval Europe represent the very first feminine voices heard in a world where women were nearly silent. As such, they are striking and unusual, strange, powerful and urgent. Monica Furlong uses key selections from among these women's own writings and writings about them by their contemporaries, along with her own assessment of them, to open up their contributions to a wide popular audience. The eleven women represented in this anthology were housewives, visionaries, abbesses, beguines, recluses, and nuns who wrote between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. They include: Heacute;loise, the scholar and abbess, whose letters to Abelard are treasure of medieval…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/15/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English