Format: Hardback
Pages: 226
ISBN: 9781843840077
Pub Date: June 2004
Imprint: Boydell & Brewer
Illustrations: 4 b/w illus
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£70.00
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Description:
Thirteen papers, from the seventh Exeter Symposium, approach medieval mysticism from a range of perspectives, including literary, historical, theological and psychological points of view. Subjects include: Julian of Norwich, the writings of Jan van Ruusbroec, Anchoritic texts, St Birgitta, holy women in print, continetal women mystics in England during the 15th and 16th centuries, Margery Kempe, devotional theology, The Book of the First Monks , mystical desire and the English Syon Brethren.