Flesh Made Word : Medieval Women Mystics, Writing, and the iIcarnation Text
Emily A. Holmes.
- xxi, 224 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-19) and index.
Problem of incarnation -- Attending to word and flesh: an inclusive incarnation -- Hadewijch of Brabant and the mother of love -- Angela of Foligno writing the body of Christ -- Writing annihilation with Marguerite Porete -- Transcendence incarnate: apophatic bodies and the apophatic Christ.
9781602587533 (alk. paper)
2013007939
Hadewijch, active 13th century --Authorship. Angela, of Foligno, 1248?-1309 --Authorship. Porete, Marguerite, approximately 1250-1310 --Authorship.
Incarnation--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500. Mysticism--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.