God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle AgesUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 14. 1. 2016 - Počet stran: 464 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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... ( Figure 1.1 ) .12 To create " domina Paupertas " the author drew in equal measure on the Song of Songs and the sapiential books , where he found a ready model in Solomon's romance with Lady Wisdom . Francis , aware of Poverty's infinite ...
... ( Figure 4.5 ) would continue to rise . The Servant and Eternal Wisdom In styling herself a minnende Seele , a " loving soul " with the passion of a mystic and the refined manners of a minnesinger , Mechthild was among the first German ...
... Figure 5.4 ] . She shone as the morning star and daz- zled as the glittering sun . Her crown was eternity , her attire blessedness , her words sweetness , and her embrace the surcease of all desire . She was distant yet near , far above ...
... [ Figure 1.4 ] . Now no one would ask whether I was surprised , for my doors were shut and they had still entered . Fearing that some phantom had come to tempt me and filled with great fright , I made the Sign of the Cross on my forehead ...
... figure , the Cumaean Sibyl ( Figure 1.5 ) . On Mount Parnassus the Sibyl points out two roads to heaven that are accessible only to the wise and learned . The straighter , narrower , and greener of the two is called the road of ...
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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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