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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... allegory and of courtly love . " If the present book is not quite the history that Lewis had in mind , it has much to say about both , and still more about goddesses who lie neglected . God and the Goddesses casts a wide net , but let ...
... allegorical figures , " we run the risk of blunting their emotional force and trivializing their religious import . The term " goddesses " may startle , yet it appears not infrequently in the texts under study , and such epithets as ...
... allegory ? Is it possible to distinguish the personifications that appear in alle- gorical poems and visual art from those that appear in actual visions ? How could medieval writers reconcile their statements about the daughters of God ...
... allegorical text , Francis decides to woo Lady Poverty and , with his companions , scales the steep mountain where she dwells . There he deliv- ers a panegyric on Poverty as queen of the virtues , to which she responds with a history of ...
... allegory has consisted mainly of speeches , alternating between Francis's praise of Lady Poverty and her authoritative account of church history . The author could not have intended readers to visualize the scene : anyone literal ...
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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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