Proving woman : female spirituality and inquisitional culture in the later Middle Ages / Dyan Elliott.
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TextPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2004Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 350 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781400826025
- 1400826020
- Women -- Religious life -- History
- Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Mysticism -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Women mystics -- Europe
- Heresy -- History -- To 1500
- Inquisition
- Women
- Mysticism -- history
- Women
- Femmes -- Vie religieuse
- Église -- Histoire -- 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
- Mysticisme -- Histoire -- 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
- Femmes mystiques -- Europe
- Hérésie -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 1500
- Inquisition
- Femmes
- RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History
- RELIGION -- Christianity -- History
- HISTORY -- Europe -- Western
- Church history -- Middle Ages
- Heresy
- Inquisition
- Mysticism -- Middle Ages
- Women mystics
- Women -- Religious life
- Europe
- Häresie
- Spiritualität
- Frauenmystik
- Inquisition
- Frau
- Vrouwen
- Mystiek
- Inquisitie
- Ketterij
- femme -- orthodoxie (conformité doctrinale) -- spiritualité -- Moyen-Âge (Bas) -- 13e s. -- 15e s. (1ère moitié)
- femme -- mystique chrétienne -- orthodoxie (conformité doctrinale) -- Moyen-Âge (Bas) -- 13e s. -- 15e s. (1ère moitié)
- femme -- hérésie -- inquisition -- sainteté -- Moyen-Âge (Bas) -- 13e s. -- 15e s. (1ère moitié)
- Frau
- To 1500
- 270.5/082 22
- BR163 .E55 2004eb
- 11.52
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 Ages female mystics were frequently mistrusted, derided, and in danger of their lives. The witch hunts were just around the corner. While studies of sanctity and heresy tend to be undertaken separately, Proving Woman brings these two avenues of inquiry together by associating the downward trajectory of holy wom.
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