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This book explores the rich and varied mystical writings by and about medieval – and a few early modern – women across Western Europe. Women had a profound and lasting impact on the development of medieval and early modern spiritual and mystical literature, both through their own writing and as a result of the hagiographical texts that they inspired. Bringing together contributions by both established and emerging scholars, the volume provides a valuable overview of medieval mystical women with a special focus on the Low Countries and Italy, regions that produced a disproportionately high number of female mystics. The figures discussed range from Hildegard of Bingen, Hadewijch, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, Angela of Foligno, Julian of Norwich, and Beatrice of Nazareth to lesser-known women such as Agnes Blannbekin, Christina of Hane, and Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi. The chapters address topics such as the body, pain, desire, ecstasy, stigmata, annihilation, virtue, visions, the tension between exterior and interior experience, and the nature of mystical union itself.

John Arblaster is  Associate Professor of the history of spirituality in the Low Countries at the Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp and Assistant Visiting Professo rat the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven.

Rob Faesen is Jesuitica Chair Emeritus at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, and the Francis Xavier Chair at the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology, and is also Professor Emeritus at the Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp.

Table des matières :

1. Mystical Hagiography in the Thirteenth Century: The Low Countries and Italy

Alessandra Bartolomei Romagnoli

2. Annihilated Women in the Thirteenth Century

Bernard Mcginn

3. Hidden Marks of Leadership: Holy Women and Invisible Stigmata in the Late Middle Ages

Carolyn Muessig

4. ‘Enarrabiliter’: The Separation of Visionary Experience and Communicable Form in Hildegard of Bingen’s Vision Books

Dinah Wouters

5. Gender and Feminine Virtue in Bernard of Clairvaux and Hadewijch

Kenneth Hoyt

6. Kenotic Christology, Poverty, and Annihilation in Clare of Assisi and Angela of Foligno

Michael Hahn

7. Mysticism by the Numbers: Beatrice of Nazareth’s Seven Manners of Love and Ida of Nivelles’ ‘Eight Topics of Contemplation’

Lydia Shahan

8. Spiritual Edifices: Beatrice of Nazareth’s Monastery of the Heart and Agnes Blannbekin’s Urban Stations of Christ

Amanda J. Langley

9. The Mystic as Symbol: Ecstasy as Liturgical Participation in the Vita of Beatrice of Nazareth

Samantha Slaubaugh

10. ‘I Want to Die Living’: The Entanglement of Death and Desire in Mechthild of Magdeburg

Amy Maxey

11. Spiritual Vision in Corporeal Space: The Power of Performative Language in the Mystical Life of Christina of Hane

Racha Kirakosian, Translated by Philip Liston-Kraft

12. Can This Text Still Speak? Reading Julian of Norwich’s Prayer for Illness as (Fully a Part of) a ‘Classic Text’ of Embodied Mysticism

Andrew K. Lee

13. The Theological Virtues, Interiorisation, and Theological Anthropology in The Evangelical Pearl

Rik Van Nieuwenhove

14. The Blood and the Word: The Mystical Speech Acts of Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi

Henry Barrett

Informations pratiques :

Medieval Mystical Women in the West. Growing in the Height of Love, éd. John Arblaster, Rob Faesen, Londres, Routledge, 2024 ; 1 vol., 304 p. ISBN : 978-1-03212-349-3. Prix : GBP 108,00.

Source : Routledge

The Dominican Third Rule was approved in in 1405 and helped to integrate existing groups of laypeople (like Beguines) into the Order of Preachers. This volume is the first to fully examine the introduction of the Third Rule in the German-speaking regions as well as the different lifestyles practiced by people in third orders, thereby creating links between the history of orders, and the religious and social history of the late Middle Ages.

Adrian Kammerer, Department of Medieval and Modern History, Georg August University Göttingen, Germany.

Table des matières : ici

Informations pratiques :

Adrian Kammerer, Der dominikanische Drittorden. Studien zum deutschsprachigen Raum im 15. und frühen 16. Jahrhundert, Berlin–Boston, De Gruyter, 2024 ; 1 vol., X–219 p. (Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Dominikanerordens – Neue Folge, 28). ISBN : 978-3-11132-354-1. Prix : € 99,95.

Source : De Gruyter

L’oro dei santi. Percorsi della «Legenda aurea» in volgare, éd. Speranza Cerullo, Laura Ingallinella, Florence, SISMEL–Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2024 ; 1 vol., XXXII–462 p. (mediEVI, 41). ISBN : 978-88-9290-224-4. Prix : € 62,00.

Table des matières :

L. Leonardi – Il progetto Legenda aurea in Italiano (LAI)

P. Squillacioti – La Legenda aurea toscana e le risorse dell’Opera del Vocabolario Italiano

IL TESTO LATINO

G. P. Maggioni – I manoscritti toscani latini della Legenda aurea e il volgarizzamento fiorentino anonimo del XIV secolo

A. Degl’Innocenti – Leggendari agiografici latini nella Toscana del XIV secolo

LA LEGENDA AUREA IN ITALIA

S. Cerullo – Le traduzioni italiane: itinerari nella tradizione manoscritta

M. Colombo – Primi sondaggi su tre vite di santi in genovese

M. Pagano – Lacerti della Legenda aurea in volgare siciliano

LA TRADUZIONE FIORENTINA DELLA LEGENDA AUREA

L. Ingallinella – «Una storia viva»: copisti-editori della Legenda aurea fiorentina tra Quattro e Novecento

Z. Verlato – Il manoscritto Giaccherino I F 2 e la tradizione della Legenda aurea fiorentina

D. Dotto – Itinerari lessicali e traduttologici dentro e fuori il volgarizzamento fiorentino della Legenda aurea

R. Tagliani – Sondaggi tra sintassi e testualità nella traduzione fiorentina della Legenda aurea

LA LEGENDA AUREA NELL’EUROPA ROMANZA

F. Cigni – Il punto sui leggendari francoitaliani della fine del sec. XIII: nuove ricerche e osservazioni

G. Veysseyre – Prolégomènes à l’édition de la Légende dorée traduite en français d’oïl par Jean de Vignay (ca 1340-1348)

J. Gesiot – F. Zinelli – La Legenda aurea nello spazio catalano-occitanico: traduzioni e diffusione

L. Sacchi – Arborescenze della Legenda aurea in Castiglia

INDICI. Indice dei manoscritti – Indice degli autori, delle opere anonime e degli studios

Source : SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo

To what extent does our knowledge of the past rely upon written sources? And what happens when these sources are destroyed? Focusing on the manuscripts of the Middle Ages, History in Flames explores cases in which large volumes of written material were destroyed during a single day. This destruction didn’t occur by accident of fire or flood but by human forces such as arson, shelling and bombing. This book examines the political and military events that preceded the moment of destruction, from the Franco-Prussian War and the Irish Civil War to the complexities of World War II; it analyses the material lost and how it came to be where it was. At the same time, it discusses the heroic efforts made by scholars and archivists to preserve these manuscripts, even partially. History in Flames reminds us that historical knowledge rests on material remains, and that these remains are vulnerable.

Robert Bartlett, CBE, FBA, is Professor Emeritus at the University of St Andrews. His books include The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950–1350, which won the Wolfson Literary Prize for History. He has written and presented three television series for the BBC, “Inside the Medieval Mind” (2008), ‘The Normans’ (2010), and ‘The Plantagenets’ (2014).

Table des matières :

Preface

1. Our Knowledge of the Past
2. Libraries and Archives
3. What Has Been lost?
4. A Narrow Escape: Beowulf
5. ‘Away With the Learning of the Clerks!’
6. Strasbourg, 24 August 1870: The Garden of Delights
7. Bulin, 30 June 1922: The Public Record Office of Ireland
8. Naples, 30 September 1943: The State Archive
9. Hanover, 9 October 1943: The Ebstorf Map
10. Chartres, 26 May 1944: The Municipal Library
    Conclusion.

Informations pratiques :

Robert Bartlett, History in Flames. The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024 ; 1 vol., 220 p. ISBN : 978-1-00945-715-6. Prix : GBP 20,00.

Source : Cambridge University Press