Featuring a guide to further reading and a chronology, the Companion offers an accessible overview for students of literature, history and theology.
Gillespie and Samuel Fanous (Cambridge: CUP, 2011), pp. This is an excellent, insightful introduction to medieval English mystical texts, their authors, readers and communities. 1215-1349: Texts, The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Mysticism, ed. Caroline Walker Bynum discusses the extreme practices of affective mystics in. This is an excellent, insightful introduction to medieval English mystical texts, their authors, readers and communities. Watson, introduction to Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Mysticism, 2. Arranged by sections corresponding to historical developments, it explores the primary vernacular texts, their authors, and the contexts that formed the expression and exploration of mystical experiences in medieval England. Taking the opposite view, this book shows how individual mystical experience, such as those recorded by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, is rooted in, nourished and framed by the richly distinctive spiritual contexts of the period. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The widespread view that 'mystical' activity in the Middle Ages was a rarefied enterprise of a privileged spiritual elite has led to isolation of the medieval 'mystics' into a separate, narrowly defined category. Arranged by sections corresponding to historical developments, it explores the primary vernacular texts, their authors, and the contexts that formed the.
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