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Author Boenig, Robert

Title The Mystical Gesture : Essays on Medieval and Early Modern Spiritual Culture in Honor of Mary E. Giles
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (237 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Mary E. Giles: Publications; Introduction; Tribute to Mary E. Giles; 1 Mechthild von Magdeburg, the Devil, and Antichrist; 2 The Spirituality of Piers Plowman; 3 Doubled Truth: Skeptical Fideism, Pseudo-Dionysius, and The Second Shepherds' Play; 4 Ecstasy, Prophecy, and Reform: Catherine of Siena as a Model for Holy Women of Sixteenth-Century Spain; 5 Bernadino de Laredo's Treatise on the Mysteries of St. Joseph and the Evangelization of Mexico; 6 What's in a Name: On Teresa of Ávila's Book; 7 Teresa and Her Sisters
8 Demonizing Ecstasy: Alonso de la Fuente and the Alumbrados of Extremadura9 The Beautiful Dove, the Body Divine: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza's Mystical Poetics; 10 Cecilia de Nacimiento: Mystic in the Tradition of John of the Cross; 11 Inside My Body Is the Body of God: Margaret Mary Alacoque and the Tradition of Embodied Mysticism; 12 Making Use of the Holy Office: Exploring the Contexts and Concepts of Sor Juana's References to the Inquisition in the Respuesta a Sor Filotea; List of Contributors; Index
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ISBN 9781351786522
1351786520