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1.
Mystics of the Christian Tradition
Contributors:
Publisher:
Routledge 2001
Subjects:
Mysticism--History
Mystics
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...that in the Spain of his day visionary mystics were being prosecuted by the Inquisition and it was vital for mystics who wished to avoid inquisitorial scrutiny...mysticism are to be judged.A study of mystics can produce a different effect. Attention...
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Women Mystics Confront the Modern World: Marie de L'Incarnation (1599-1672) and Madame Guyon (1648-1717)
Contributors:
Publisher:
State University of New York 1998
Subjects:
Marie de L'incarnation, Maere, 1599-1672
Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte, 1648-1717
Mysticism--History--17th Century
Women Mystics--Biography
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...attributed more to women.8 Many female mystics, however,seem to have participated...century and takenup again by the male mystics during the fourteenth century, bearwitness...directors, preachers, or confessors. Female mystics, tothe contrary, held a social position...
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Between Exaltation and Infamy: Female Mystics in the Golden Age of Spain
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2002
Subjects:
Mysticism--Spain--History--16th Century
Women Mystics--Spain--History--16th Century
Spain--Church History--16th Century
Mysticism--Spain--History--17th Century
Women Mystics--Spain--History--17th Century
Spain--Church History--17th Century
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...literacy rates between “ap­proved” mystics (90 percent) and “fake” mystics (66.6 percent) and the greateraccess that “approved” mystics had to saint images and hagiographies wouldseem to account...
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Women Mystics in Medieval Europe
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Publisher:
Paragon House 1989
Subjects:
Women Mystics--Europe
Mysticism--Europe--History
Mysticism--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
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...intothe mouths of these holy women verses composed by bothour mystics. We can also trace this influence in his use of awhole series...Beguines.As regards doctrine, the influence of these two mystics onRuysbroeck has been a subject of considerable discussion...
5.
Visionary Women: Three Medieval Mystics
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Publisher:
Fortress Press 2002
Subjects:
Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179
Mechthild, of Magdeburg, CA. 1212-CA. 1282
Julian, of Norwich, B. 1343
Women Mystics--Biography
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...generations.A great network of supporters, preservers,and publicists of the work of these three andother medieval women mystics surroundthem and allow us to enjoy them today. Onethinks of Jutta, Hildegard's mentor, who edu­cated her and promoted...
6.
Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies throughout the Ages
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Publisher:
Routledge 2004
Subjects:
Mysticism
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...anything that is not GodSome Christian mystics have a strong preference for the via positiva...following chapters will show how different mystics have expressed their experience of union...individuals. From the early Christian mystics of the first five centuries who laid the...
7.
The Mystics of Spain
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Publisher:
George Allen & Unwin 1951
Subjects:
Mysticism--Spain
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...reaction --some appreciation of the mystics of the Golden Age if notsome fresh original...literature, the writings of thegreatest mystics were not appreciated. St. John of the...day;yet, though appreciation of the mystics has certainly reacheda high level in Spain...
8.
The English Mystics
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Publisher:
Michael Joseph Ltd 1950
Subjects:
Mysticism--Great Britain
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...of religious moralists. Not only did he insist, as alltrue mystics have done, on the inwardness and universality ofreligious...beings ormen'. Blake is the most thoroughgoing of all English mystics.For him the whole universe of experience is a compleximaginative...
9.
Poets and Mystics
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Publisher:
Sheed & Ward 1953
Subjects:
Mysticism--Catholic Church
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...certainly are often natural, if rarely super­natural, mystics. But their naturally mystical intuition when itoccurs is as...is a super­naturally mystical intuition.Almost all mystics, so far as we can judge, are sensitive tonatural beauty...
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Master Eckhart and the Rhineland Mystics
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Publisher:
Harper Torchbooks 1957
Subjects:
Eckhart, Meister, D. 1327
Mysticism--Germany
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...0028Cambridge, 1932).J. M. CLARK, The Great German Mystics: Eckhart, Tauler and Suso(Blackwell, Oxford, 1949U...anAnthology of his Sermons (London, 1957). German Mystics before EckhartST. MECHTILD, Select Revelations (Derby...
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