Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 17896
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Warnar , Geert.
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  • Title: Ex levitate mulierum: Masculine Mysticism and Jan Van Ruusbroec's Perception of Religious Women [The author argues that too much emphasis has been placed on the impact of medieval women's mysticism. Warnar cites van Ruusbroec's last work, "On the Twelve Beguines," suggesting that Van Ruusbroec uses the women's desperate attempts to know God as a foil for his subsequent discussion of technical procedures and theological positions. Warnar concludes that men and women occupied separate worlds. Therefore masculine forms of mystical devotion, emphasizing a controlled, intellectual approach, had little to do with the emotional, experiential approach of women like Hadewijch. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: The Voice of Silence: Women's Literacy in a Men's Church.  Edited by Thérèse de Hemptinne and María Eugenia GóngoraMedieval Church Studies.  Brepols, 2004.  Pages 193 - 206.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Beguines Gender Hadewijch, Mystic Jan van Ruusbroec, Prior of Groenendaal- Van den XII Beghinen Mystics Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: Low Countries
  • Century: 14
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  • Year of Publication: 2004.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: Not Available