Proving woman : female spirituality and inquisitional culture in the later Middle Ages /
Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's most sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. Holy women's claims to be in direct communication with God placed them in positions of unprecedented influence. Yet by the end of the Middle Ag...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
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Taula de continguts:
- Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Sacramental Confession as Proof of Orthodoxy; PART ONE: Women as Proof of Orthodoxy; CHAPTER TWO: The Beguines: A Sponsored Emergence; CHAPTER THREE: Elisabeth of Hungary: Between Men; PART TWO: Inquisitions and Proof; CHAPTER FOUR: Sanctity, Heresy, and Inquisition; CHAPTER FIVE: Between Two Deaths: The Living Mystic; PART THREE: The Discernment of Spirits; CHAPTER SIX: Clerical Quibbles; CHAPTER SEVEN: John Gerson and Joan of Arc; CONCLUSION; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.