Body+soul

I. Backgrounds 1. Women and Mysticism in the Medieval World 2. Unmasking Women: Medieval Responses to the Unknowability of the Lady 3. A New Feminine Spirituality: The Beguines and Their Writings in Medieval Europe 4. A Medieval Woman's Utopian Vision: The Rule of St. Clare of Assisi II. The Tradition of Holy Women: Change and Continuity 5. Eloquence and Heroic Virginity in Hrotsvit's Verse Legends 6. Transforming the World: The Serpent-Dragon and the Virgin Saint 7. "She Seemed to Have Come from the Desert": Italian Women Saints and the Vitae Patrum Cycle III. Women Mystics and the Acquisition of Authority 8. Male Confessors and Female Penitents: Possibilities for Dialogue 9. The Rhetoric of Transgression in the Lives of Italian Women Saints 10. Gender, Knowledge, and Power in Hadewijch Strophische Gedichten 11. Writing the Body: Male and Female in the Writings of Marguerite d'Oingt, Angela of Foligno, and Umilta of Faenza IndexPetroff, Elizabeth A. is the author of 'Body+soul' with ISBN 9780195084542 and ISBN 0195084543.