Medievalists.net » Marie d’Oignies http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Chaste Erotics of Marie d’Oignies and Jacques de Vitry http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/01/the-chaste-erotics-of-marie-doignies-and-jacques-de-vitry-2/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/01/the-chaste-erotics-of-marie-doignies-and-jacques-de-vitry-2/#comments Thu, 01 Aug 2013 19:41:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42547 The Chaste Erotics of Marie d’Oignies and Jacques de Vitry Jennifer Brown (Marymount Manhattan College) Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 19, No. 1, January (2010) Abstract IN JACQUES DE VITRY’S THIRTEENTH-CENTURY vita of Marie d’Oignies, the hagiographer, or author of a sacred biography, implicates himself in his knowledge of a priest’s surprising reaction […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/01/the-chaste-erotics-of-marie-doignies-and-jacques-de-vitry-2/feed/ 0 Late-Medieval Women: Ascetic Performance and Subversive Mysticism http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/20/late-medieval-women-ascetic-performance-and-subversive-mysticism/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/20/late-medieval-women-ascetic-performance-and-subversive-mysticism/#comments Fri, 21 Sep 2012 01:28:29 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35831 Christina the Astonishing (1150-1224), Mary of Oignies (1177-1213), and Margaret of Ypres (1216-1237) are examples of such lay women who used the accepted role of Female Mystic to effect and secure alternative lifestyles, and also to gain authority that equalled, and often surpassed, the male voices that made up their communities.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/20/late-medieval-women-ascetic-performance-and-subversive-mysticism/feed/ 0 Ciceronian rhetoric and the art of medieval French hagiography http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/02/ciceronian-rhetoric-and-the-art-of-medieval-french-hagiography/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/02/ciceronian-rhetoric-and-the-art-of-medieval-french-hagiography/#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2012 17:28:03 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35306 In the lives of the saints, it is clear that medieval hagiography reflects the statement, 'Antiquity has a twofold life in the Middle Ages: reception and transformation.'

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/02/ciceronian-rhetoric-and-the-art-of-medieval-french-hagiography/feed/ 0 The Chaste Erotics of Marie d’Oignies and Jacques de Vitry http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/30/the-chaste-erotics-of-marie-doignies-and-jacques-de-vitry/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/30/the-chaste-erotics-of-marie-doignies-and-jacques-de-vitry/#comments Thu, 30 Aug 2012 06:34:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35258 In this article I would like to look at Marie's ascetic and devotional practices and how Jacques, as both confessor and hagiographer, implicates himself into these practices.

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