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From Virile Woman to Womanchrist - 9780812215458
Un libro in lingua di Barbara Newman edito da Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 1995
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Why did hagiographers of the late Middle Ages praise mothers for abandoning small children? How did a group of female mystics come to define themselves as "apostles to the dead" and end by challenging God's right to damn? Why did certain heretics around 1300 venerate a woman as the Holy Spirit incarnate and another as the Angelic Pope?
In From Virile Woman to WomanChrist, Barbara Newman asks these and other questions to trace a gradual and ambiguous transition in the gender strategies of medieval religious women. An egalitarian strain in early Christianity affirmed that once she asserted her commitment to Christ through a vow of chastity, monastic profession, or renunciation of family ties, a woman could become "virile," or equal to a man. While the ideal of the "virile woman" never disappeared, another ideal slowly evolved in medieval Christianity. By virtue of some gender-related trait—spotless virginity, erotic passion, the capacity for intense suffering, the ability to imagine a feminine aspect of the Godhead—a devout woman could be not only equal, but superior to men; without becoming male, she could become a "womanChrist," imitating and representing Christ in uniquely feminine ways.
Rooted in women's concrete aspirations and sufferings, Newman's "womanChrist" model straddles the bounds of orthodoxy and heresy to illuminate the farther reaches of female religious behavior in the Middle Ages. From Virile Woman to WomanChrist will generate compelling discussion in the fields of medieval literature and history, history of religion, theology, and women's studies.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: From Virile Woman to Womanchrist
- Sottotitolo: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Barbara Newman
- Editore: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
- Collana: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Gennaio '95
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : Women in Christianity History Women and literature Europe History To 1500 Literature, Medieval History and criticism
- Dimensioni mm: 234 x 158 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0812215451
- EAN-13: 9780812215458