Medievalists.net » Marguerite Porete http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The influence of conflicting medieval church and social discourses on individual consciousness : dissociation in the visions of Hadewijch of Brabant http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/10/influence-conflicting-medieval-church-social-discourses-individual-consciousness-dissociation-visions-hadewijch-brabant/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/10/influence-conflicting-medieval-church-social-discourses-individual-consciousness-dissociation-visions-hadewijch-brabant/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:43:36 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53221 This article examines the influence of the conflicting dis- courses in the medieval church and its social context on the subconscious experiences of Hadewijch of Brabant, a 13th century Flemish visionary, mystical author, vernacular theologian and Beguine leader

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/10/influence-conflicting-medieval-church-social-discourses-individual-consciousness-dissociation-visions-hadewijch-brabant/feed/ 0 Abandoned to Love: The Proceso of María de Cazalla and the Mirror of Simple Souls http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/04/abandoned-to-love-the-proceso-of-maria-de-cazalla-and-the-mirror-of-simple-souls/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/04/abandoned-to-love-the-proceso-of-maria-de-cazalla-and-the-mirror-of-simple-souls/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2012 03:57:31 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37747 In comparing the trial of María de Cazalla with Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls, one of the most notable works of medieval mysticism, the present study aims to demonstrate how the main components of alumbradismo may be discerned in a single normative example of medieval mystical theology.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/04/abandoned-to-love-the-proceso-of-maria-de-cazalla-and-the-mirror-of-simple-souls/feed/ 0 The Paradox of Evil: a Study of Elevation Through Oppression http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/18/the-paradox-of-evil-a-study-of-elevation-through-oppression/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/18/the-paradox-of-evil-a-study-of-elevation-through-oppression/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 02:51:08 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30313 For medieval mystical women, the ability to maintain two opposite concepts simultaneously seems to be requisite for spiritual development. Not only were women asked to comprehend humanity’s otherness from God, as women, they were assumed subservient to men and, paradoxically, as able to receive redemption as their male counterparts; women understood their nature as both inferior and worthy, lesser than and equal to.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/18/the-paradox-of-evil-a-study-of-elevation-through-oppression/feed/ 0 “The World on the End of a Reed”: Marguerite Porete and the annihilation of an identity in medieval and modern representations – a reassessment http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/20/the-world-on-the-end-of-a-reed-marguerite-porete-and-the-annihilation-of-an-identity-in-medieval-and-modern-representations-a-reassessment/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/20/the-world-on-the-end-of-a-reed-marguerite-porete-and-the-annihilation-of-an-identity-in-medieval-and-modern-representations-a-reassessment/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:38:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29458 Central to the aims of this thesis is the question “how did Porete „fit‟ the religious landscape of her period?” A seeming obstacle to this pursuit are claims from within the scholarship that Porete did not „fit‟ at all, but was, rather, as an aberration amidst other female mystics of the period.

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