Mysticism and reform, 1400-1750 / edited by Sara S. Poor and Nigel Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Poor, Sara S., editor.

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

Reformations

ReFormations: medieval and early modern

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mysticism--Europe--History.

Mysticism.

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Church history.

Church history--Middle Ages.

Church history--16th century.

Church history--17th century.

Church history--18th century.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 408 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, 2015.

Summary:

The apparent disappearance of mysticism in the Protestant world after the Reformation used to be taken as an example of the arrival of modernity. However, as recent studies in history and literary history reveal, the "Reformation" was not experienced in such a drastically transformative manner, not least because the later Middle Ages itself was marked by a series of reform movements within the Catholic Church in which mysticism played a central role. In Mysticism and Reform, 1400-1750, contributors show that it is more accurate to characterize the history of early modern mysticism as one in which relationships of continuity within transformations occurred. Rather than focus on the departures of the sixteenth-century Reformation from medieval traditions, the essays in this volume explore one of the most remarkable yet still under-studied chapters in its history: the survival and transformation of mysticism between the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. With a focus on central and northern Europe, the essays engage such subjects as the relationship of Luther to mystical writing, the visual representation of mystical experience in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century art, mystical sermons by religious women of the Low Countries, Valentin Weigel's recasting of Eckhartian gelassenheit for a Lutheran audience, and the mysticism of English figures such as Gertrude More, Jane Lead, Elizabeth Hooten, and John Austin, the German Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg, and the German American Marie Christine Sauer.

Contents:

1 Ways of Knowing in the Pre- and Post-Reformation Worlds / Euan K. Cameron Cameron, Euan K. 29

2 Gelassenheit and Confessionalization: Valentin Weigel Reads Meister Eckhart / Alana King King, Alana 49

3 The Amhem Mystical Sermons and the Sixteenth-Century Mystical Renaissance in Arnhem and Cologne / Kees Schepers Schepers, Kees 84

4 "From the very hour that I desire him": Prefiguring Spiritual Communion in Writings by Maria van Hout (d. 1547) and the Sisters of Saint Agnes in Arnhem / Kirsten M. Christensen Christensen, Kirsten M. 124

5 Saintly Idiocy and Contemplative Empowerment: The Example of Dame Gertrude More / Arthur F. Marotti Marotti, Arthur F. 151

6 Quaker Mysticism as the Return of the Medieval Repressed: English Women Prophets before and after the Reformation / Genelle C. Gertz Gertz, Genelle C. 177

7 "Between the Rational and the Mystical": The Inner Life and the Early English Enlightenment / Sarah Apetrei Apetrei, Sarah 198

8 Seraphic Discourse, Mystical Bodies: John Austin's Original Psalms / Alison Shell Shell, Alison 220

9 Between the Eucharist and Eroticism: Embodiment in the the Poetry of Catherina Regina von Greiffenberg (and an Edition by Johann Reinhard Hedinger from 1702) / Franz M. Eybl Eybl, Franz M. 241

10 Sister Marcella, Marie Christine Sauer (d. 1752), and the Chronicle of the Sisters at Ephrata / Bethany Wiggin Wiggin, Bethany 295

11 A Battle for Hearts and Minds: The Heart in Reformation Polemic / Jeffrey F. Hamburger Hamburger, Jeffrey F., Hildegard Elisabeth Keller Keller, Hildegard Elisabeth 321

12 The Rhetoric of Mysticism: From Contemplative Practice to Aesthetic Experiment / Niklaus Largier Largier, Niklaus 353.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0268038988

9780268038984

OCLC:

898158857

Publisher Number:

99963520386