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which reveal how women's mystical texts were authoritative in the history of Christianity. Namely, medieval audiences assessed mystical authority on the basis of the text's ability to produce the experience in them, and mystical texts required proper performance in order to unleash their generative power.
Ιn 1347, Kantakuzenos, a feudal magnate typical of this richest and most powerful class in late Byzantium, had triumphed after a long civil war (1341-1347) with the regency government of the young legitimate ruler, John V. Paleologos.
To do so, I will turn to the early fourteenth century and explore two specific examples, first of unorthodox mysticism and then of condemned magic. Both are idiosyncratic in many ways, but they also illustrate important trends.
29 paź 2024 · In the 14th century a wave of mystical ardour seemed to course down the valley of the Rhine, enveloping men and women in the rapture of intense, direct experience of the divine Spirit. It centred in the houses of the Dominican order, where friars and nuns practiced the mystical way of their great teacher, Meister Eckhart.
28 lip 2009 · The sender, a secular priest named Heinrich of Nördlingen, and the primary recipient, the Dominican visionary nun Margaret Ebner, had already enjoyed an extended correspondence, interspersed with a few intense face-to-face visits in the convent.
First, mysticism in the Middle Ages – even just within the Christian tradition – was not a uniform movement with a single goal: it took different forms in different parts of Europe, and those forms changed substantially from the eleventh to the fifteenth century, particularly with the increased emphasis on personal piety and the ...
22 cze 2007 · Jan van Ruusbroec (1293-1381), the most influential medieval Dutch author, is generally acknowledged to be one of the key figures in the tradition of Christian mysticism. This book...
