Recently added articles from Magistra:
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN'S INTRODUCTION TO SCIVIAS: VOLMAR, A TELLING FOCUS
Dec 01, 2008; ... Hildegard of Bingen, a medieval abbess (1098-1179 AD), defines her perceptions of self, of relationships, and of her mission in the introduction to her first major book of visions, Scivias (Know the Ways). The visions are a collection of revelations from God that Hildegard interprets and ...
NO AUDIENCE AND NO SCRIPT: MYSTIC PERFORMANCE IN THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING1
Dec 01, 2008; ... The fourteenth-century Middle English mystical treatise The Cloud of Unknowing opens with the anonymous author of this text admonishing his reader: What-so-ever thou be that this book schalt have in possession . . . neither thou rede it, ne write it, ne speke it, ne yit suffire it be ...
Looking Inward: Devotional Reading and the Private Self in Late Medieval England
Dec 01, 2008; ... Looking Inward: Devotional Reading and the Private Self in Late Medieval England Jennifer Bryan (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) 270 pages, hardcover, $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4048-1. This recent book considers the vast scope of devotional literature popular in ...
GOD AS MOTHER IN POST-BLACK DEATH ENGLISH MYSTICAL TEXTS1
Dec 01, 2008; ... In the face of adversity and crisis, Christians have frequently, and perhaps understandably, questioned the presence of God. With the outbreak of the Bubonic Plague in the early months of 1348, one third of Europe's population was wiped out, and Christians reacted with fear and doubt. The ...
Commercium: An Electronic Journal of Franciscan Studies
Dec 01, 2008; ... Commercium: An Electronic Journal of Franciscan Studies (http://www.sbu.edu/Franciscanlnstitute.aspx?id=15932) Sacrum Commercium, or the exchange between Francis and Lady Poverty is an enduring and poignant image in the Franciscan tradition. Not only was this encounter important ...
DIVINE COMMUNICATION: MECHTILD OF HACKEBORN'S IMAGERY OF THE TRINITARIAN GOD
Dec 01, 2008; ... Mecthild of Hackeborn, not to be confused with the beguine Mecthild of Magdeburg, was one of the famous "Helfta nuns," and was the younger sister of the abbess of the Helfta monastery, Gertrud of Hackeborn. Mechtild was born around 1240 near Eisleben, Saxony into a Thuringian noble family, and ...
The Benedictine Tradition: Spirituality in History
Dec 01, 2008; ... The Benedictine Tradition: Spirituality in History Laura Swan, editor, and Phyllis Zagano, series editor (Collegeville, Minn.: The Liturgical Press, 2007) 156 pages, paperback, $15.95, ISBN 978-0-8146-1914-8. Here's a different kind of "spiritual exercise": name more than a dozen ...
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 ...