Recently added articles from Magistra:
Teresa of Avila: The Book of Her Life
Jul 01, 2008; ... Teresa of Avila: The Book of Her Life Translated with notes by Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D., and Otilio Rodriguez, O.C.D., introduction by Jody Bilinkoff (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2008) 352 pages, paperback, $11.95, ISBN 978-0-87220-907-7. This newly released volume from Hackett is ...
Francesc Eiximenis: An Anthology
Jul 01, 2008; ... Francesc Eiximenis: An Anthology Translated by Robert D. Hughes, introduction by Xavier Renedo and David Guixeras (Rochester, N. Y.: Tamesis Books [Boydell & Brewer], 2008) 165 pages, hardback, $34.95, ISBN 9781-85566162-2. Eiximenis is hardly a household name for those who are not ...
SOMATIC PATHWAYS TO CHRIST: PASSION, TRAVAIL, AND JULIAN OF NORWICH'S CHALLENGE TO CHRISTIAN NEOPLATONISM
Jul 01, 2008; ... Although recognized as a mystic and an anchoress who lived ascetically, Julian of Norwich no doubt felt the influence of contemporary strains of affective piety. Notwithstanding the careful contemplation that she devoted to her revelations over the years, she received her showings while ...
BODILY LANGUAGE IN THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES OF GERTRUD THE GREAT OF HELFTA1
Jul 01, 2008; ... The Documenta spiritualium exercitionum of Gertrud the Great, thirteenth century visionary of the Benedicitine-Cistercian abbey of Helfta, teaches the devotional experience of an embodied kind of unio mystica. The text prescribes seven recommended spiritual practices, freely based on patterns of ...
READING THE TEXTUAL SHADOWS OF ANGLO-SAXON MONASTIC WOMEN'S FRIENDSHIPS
Jul 01, 2008; ... In what is virtually a letter of application for spiritual friendship and mentoring, the young Anglo-Saxon nun Leofgyth (called Leoba) sends the older missionary Bishop Boniface some verses showcasing her literary abilities. Saluting Boniface as "most dear [to her] in Christ," Leoba cites their ...
Resources from Adam Matthew
Jul 01, 2008; ... Resources from Adam Matthew Adam Matthew is a British publishing company which has an abundant trove of resources for women's scholars. Under the title Adam Matthew Digital, they have gathered a broad range of research collections from many sources on many historical topics. The ...
SPIRITUAL COUNSEL AND THE BONDS OF AFFECTION: A STUDY AND TRANSLATION OF FOUR LETTERS BY A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FRANCISCAN WOMAN MYSTIC
Jul 01, 2008; ... In a period spanning the years 1624-1631 the mystic nun, Ana María de San José of the Discalced Franciscan Convent of the Immaculate Conception in Salamanca, Spain, sent some twenty-two letters of spiritual counsel, vocational support and mystical revelation to her Franciscan friend and ...
SOURCES OF SPIRITUALITY IN THE LIBER MANUALIS OF DHUODA
Jul 01, 2008; ... Athough I, Dhuoda, am of the weaker sex, living unworthily among the weaker, still I am your mother, my son William. To you now, I direct the words of my Manual."1 For over a century, interest in Dhuoda's Liber manualis has resulted in numerous editions and translations as well as a ...
BEYOND THE RULE OF SAINT BENEDICT: IMPOSITION OF CISTERCIAN CUSTOMS AND ENCLOSURE ON NUNS IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES1
Jul 01, 2007; ... (Written in homage to the late Bernadette Barrière) Nearly eighty percent of all Cistercian women's houses in what is today France survived the challenges of fourteenth and fifteenth century currency debasement, famine, plague, and invasions to exist, like the order's men's houses, right ...
WISDOM'S VOICE AND WOMEN'S SPEECH: HROTSWITHA OF GANDERSHEIM, HILDEGARD OF BINGEN, AND REBECCA COX JACKSON
Jul 01, 2007; ... Wisdom cries out in the street; in the squares she raises her voice. At the busiest corner she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks: "How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge? Give heed to my ...
CLARE OF ASSISI AND THE POWER OF THE CROSS
Jul 01, 2007; ... Documents written by and about Clare of Assisi describe the meaning of the cross in the spirituality attributed to her. Keeping before herself the witness of the crucified was integral to Clare's spirituality.1 Accounting for differing emphases on the function of the cross in Clare's ...
CLARE, HUMAN EMBODIMENT, AND ESPOUSAL OF THE POOR CHRIST1
Jul 01, 2007; ... he intention of this essay is to demonstrate the coincidence of the experience of espousal of Christ as developed in Clare's Letters to Agnes of Prague, with the description of the lived human experience of the sisters in San Damiano, as presented in the Forma vitae sororum pauperum in terms of ...
Spirituality, Gender and the Self in Renaissance Italy: Angela Merici and the Company of St. Ursula (1474-1540)
Jul 01, 2007; ... Querciolo Mazzonis. Spirituality, Gender and the Self in Renaissance Italy: Angela Merici and the Company of St. Ursula (1474-1540) (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2007) 247 pages, paperback, $35.95, ISBN 978-0-8132-1490-0. Angela Merici is well known in the history of ...
Hildegard of Bingen: A Spiritual Reader
Jul 01, 2007; ... Hildegard of Bingen: A Spiritual Reader, translated and compiled by Carmen Acevedo Butcher (Brewster, Mass.: Paraclete Press, 2006) 183 pages, paperback, $16.95, ISBN 978-1-55725-490-0. Another pop version of Hildegard? Yes, and this one is definitely a sampler version. Butcher has ...
THE ENDURING STRENGTH OF TRADITIONAL AND RECOVERED STORIES
Dec 01, 2006; ... "But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?"1 "Martyrdom is never an affair of weakness, but rather of strength. Only a hero is able to walk the path of martyrdom."2 For several centuries, Anabaptists3 have been called "die Stillen im Lande" (the Quiet ...
JUDGE WISDOM, QUEEN CHARITY: THE FEMININE DIVINE IN GERTRUD OF HELFTA'S SPIRITUAL EXERCISES
Dec 01, 2006; ... The God of medieval Christendom was father of one Son but many daughters: Sapientia, Philosophia, Ecclesia, Frau Minne, Dame Nature, Lady Reason, and the list goes on. ...Goddesses abound not only in the creations of poets, but also in the theological writings of clerics and the revelations of ...
Angela of Foligno: Passionate Mystic of the Double Abyss
Dec 01, 2006; ... Angela of Foligno: Passionate Mystic of the Double Abyss, translated and edited by Paul Lachance, OFM (Hyde Park, N. Y.: New City Press, 2006) 122 pages, paperback, $, ISBN 1-56548-248-4. This small volume is one of a series from New City Press of selected spiritual writings by a broad ...
HOC EST QUOD CUPIO: APPROACHING THE RELIGIOUS GOALS OF CLARE OF ASSISI, AGNES OF BOHEMIA, AND ISABELLE OF FRANCE1
Dec 01, 2006; ... In the climax of her conversion, Saint Agnes of Bohemia (1211-1282),2 the daughter of king Ottokar I ([dagger]230), shouts out with conviction: hoc est quod ctipio. Like no other passage in her 14th century legend, this expression handed on in direct speech seeks to accumulate the religious ...
ST. CATHERINE OF GENOA: LIFE IN THE SPIRITUAL BORDERLANDS
Dec 01, 2006; ... Saint Catherine of Genoa (Caterinetta Fieschi Adorno, 1447-1510) is so often studied for her teachings on purgatory that she is sometimes called its "great theorist."' For Catherine, however, purgatory was more than a doctrine. As her vita reveals, it was also a metaphor for her daily life: "She ...
Send Me God
Dec 01, 2006; ... Martinus Cawley, OCSO. Send Me God (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006) 308 pages, paperback, $25.00, ISBN 0-271-02683-9. One of the great translators of medieval spiritual texts is joined by one of the great scholars of the genre in this volume originally ...