God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle AgesUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 14/01/2016 - 464 páginas Contrary to popular belief, the medieval religious imagination did not restrict itself to masculine images of God but envisaged the divine in multiple forms. In fact, the God of medieval Christendom was the Father of only one Son but many daughters—including Lady Philosophy, Lady Love, Dame Nature, and Eternal Wisdom. God and the Goddesses is a study in medieval imaginative theology, examining the numerous daughters of God who appear in allegorical poems, theological fictions, and the visions of holy women. We have tended to understand these deities as mere personifications and poetic figures, but that, Barbara Newman contends, is a mistake. These goddesses are neither pagan survivals nor versions of the Great Goddess constructed in archetypal psychology, but distinctive creations of the Christian imagination. As emanations of the Divine, mediators between God and the cosmos, embodied universals, and ravishing objects of identification and desire, medieval goddesses transformed and deepened Christendom's concept of God, introducing religious possibilities beyond the ambit of scholastic theology and bringing them to vibrant imaginative life. |
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... Late Middle Ages , " Religion and Literature 31 , 1 ( Spring 1999 ) : 77-101 . An excerpt from Chapter 5 appeared under the title , " Henry Suso and the Medieval Devotion to Christ the God- dess , " Spiritus 2 , 1 ( Spring 2002 ) : 1-14 ...
... late , the text gestures toward the hagiographic legend of a " marriage " between Francis and Lady Poverty with- out actually presenting their pact in such terms ( Figure 1.1 ) .12 To create " domina Paupertas " the author drew in equal ...
... late fourteenth century , as we will see in Chapter 5 , she would have her own paraliturg- ical cult . Will and Lady Holy Church About a decade after Henry Suso redacted his Life , a vagabond cleric in England began to revise and ...
... late in life under the stress of war.43 She was certainly no mystic and may well have been skeptical , as was her friend Jean Gerson , about the prevailing forms of female spirituality . Christine's religion , like that of her ...
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Índice
The Thirteenth Century | 151 |
Hadewijchs Stanzaic Poems | 169 |
Dante Beatrice and lamor che move il sole | 181 |
Sapientia The Goddess Incarnate | 190 |
Poised Between Christ and Mary | 194 |
Henry Suso and His Legacy | 206 |
Julian of Norwich | 222 |
The Alchemical Virgin | 234 |
Natura I Nature and Natures God | 51 |
Bernard Silvestriss Cosmographia | 55 |
De planctu Naturae | 66 |
Anticlaudianus | 73 |
Nature or Natures God? | 86 |
Natura II Goddess of the Normative | 90 |
Ganymede and Helen and Natures Grammar | 91 |
From Alan of Lille to Jean de Meun | 97 |
Chaucers Parlement of Fowles | 111 |
Christines Revisionist Myths | 115 |
Nature Nurture Silence | 122 |
The Realm of the Natural | 134 |
Love Divine All Loves Excelling | 138 |
The Twelfth Century | 140 |
Maria Holy Trinity as Holy Family | 245 |
The Trinity as a Family | 247 |
The Marian Trinity in Art | 254 |
The Lability of Female Roles | 273 |
The Invention of the Holy Family | 283 |
Goddesses and the One God | 291 |
Imaginative Theology | 294 |
The Gender of God and the Limits of Intolerance | 304 |
Medieval Christianity as an Inclusive Monotheism | 317 |
List of Abbreviations | 329 |
Notes | 331 |
Works Cited | 409 |
Index | 437 |
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God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages Barbara Newman Pré-visualização limitada - 2005 |
God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages Barbara Newman Pré-visualização limitada - 2016 |
God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages Barbara Newman Visualização de excertos - 2005 |
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