Intersections of Sexuality and the Divine in Medieval Culture
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Al
Alchemical Conjunction
Alchemical Hermaphrodite
alchemical symbolism
ancrene
Canon's Yeoman's Tale
Canticum Canticorum
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corpus
Corpus Mysticum
Corpus Verum
Divine Heart
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erotic mysticism
experience
female saints analysis
Figurative Language
Follow
gender theory
Holy Men
Holy Union
Honorary Virgin
Imitatio Mariae
kempe
maiden
margery
Matrimony
MeA
Medieval Mystical Texts
medieval religious studies
Merchant's Tale
Middle English literature
mystical
mysticum
pearl
Pearl Maiden
Persona
Reborn
Senex Amans
sexuality and devotion in medieval texts
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Violate
wisse
Word Made Flesh
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- ISBN 9781138266537
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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As distinct from the many recent collections and studies of medieval literature and culture that have focused on gender and sexuality as their major themes, this collection considers and serves to re-think and re-situate religion and sexuality together. Including 'traditional' works such as Chaucer and the Pearl-poet, as well as less well known and studied texts - such as alchemical texts and the Wohunge group - the contributors here focus on the meeting point of these two often-examined concepts. They seek an understanding of where sex and religion distinguish themselves from one another, and where they do not. This volume locates the Divine and the Erotic within the continuum of experience and devotion that characterize the paradox of the medieval world. Not merely original in their approaches, these authors seek a new vision of how these two inter-connected themes - sexuality and the Divine - meet, connect, distinguish themselves, and merge within medieval life, language, and literature.
