Promised Bodies: Time, Language, & Corporeality in Medieval Women's Mystical Texts

by Patricia Dailey

In the Christian tradition, especially in the works of Paul, Augustine, and the exegetes of the Middle Ages, the body is a twofold entity consisting of inner and outer persons that promises to find its true materiality in a time to come. A potentially transformative vehicle, it is a dynamic mirror that can reflect the work of the divine within and substantially alter its own materiality if receptive to divine grace.

The writings of Hadewijch...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231161204
• ISBN13: 9780231161206
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"