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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... traditional bride was the very Church that Francis was trying to reform . In her own discourse , Lady Poverty recounts the history of that institution , especially of the religious orders , as a never - ending cycle of corruption and ...
... tradition , as we will see in Chapter 4 . Most obviously , she hails from the realm of courtly lyric , with its ethos of erotic tyranny , but close behind her stands the personified Caritas of monastic theology , and in the distance ...
... tradition exercised a more powerful influence than Henry Suso , a Dominican mystic who called him- self " the servant of Eternal Wisdom . " Suso's autohagiography , The Life of the Servant , is a unique case of a male saint's life ...
... tradition , the woman Ecclesia was closely identified with the bride in the Song of Songs and both figures with Mary as queen of heaven . Langland , uninterested in this monastic and often triumphalist exegesis , makes his Holy Church ...
... tradition with full seriousness . Maureen Quilligan observes that " what Christine does is simply to take very seriously the metaphorically feminine gender of alle- gorical figures of authority — decreed by the grammar of romance ...
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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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