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Maria Petyt - a Carmelite Mystic in Wartime / edited by Joseph Chalmers [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Radboud studies in humanities ; Volume 4.
- Radboud Studies in Humanities Series ; Volume 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carmelites--Netherlands--Biography.
- Carmelites.
- Carmelites--Spiritual life.
- Dutch War, 1672-1678.
- Petyt, Maria, 1623-1677.
- Petyt, Maria.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 292 pages) : illustrations, 1 colour map; digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Brill 2015
- Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2015]
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Based on the discovery of an unknown Latin manuscript, Maria Petyt - A Carmelite Mystic in Wartime provides surprising new information about the seventeenth century Flemish mystic Maria Petyt (1623-1677) who wrote many letters to her spiritual director, Michael of St. Augustine.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction / Elisabeth Hense , Veronie Meeuwsen and Esther van de Vate
- 1 Maria Petyt – A Short Biography / Esther van de Vate
- 2 Maria Petyt against the Background of the Political and Religious Situation in Flanders in the Seventeenth Century / Esther van de Vate
- 3 Daily Life at the Hermitage in Mechelen at the Time of Maria Petyt (1657–1677) / Michel van Meerbeeck
- 4 Living as a Spiritual Virgin and Claiming Prophetic Authority: The Parallel Lives of Maria Petyt and Antoinette Bourignon / Mirjam de Baar
- 5 Some Notes on the History of the Latin Manuscript of the Life of Maria Petyt by Michael of St. Augustine / Giovanni Grosso
- 6 ‘Oh, How Spiritual Directors are Obliged to Remain Silent!’ Michael’s Redaction of the Writings of Maria Petyt: Some Initial Findings / Esther van de Vate
- 7 The Latin Manuscript about the Dutch War and Its Translation in English / Veronie Meeuwsen (ed.)
- 8 Maria Petyt’s Support of the French King / Veronie Meeuwsen
- 9 The Spirituality of Teresa of Avila and the Latin Manuscript about the Dutch War (folios 30r–49v) / Elisabeth Hense
- 10 The Prophetic Spirituality of Maria Petyt in the Latin Manuscript about the Dutch War / Anne-Marie Bos
- Epilogue / Joseph Chalmers
- Index / Joseph Chalmers , Elisabeth Hense , Veronie Meeuwsen and Esther van de Vate.
- Notes:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International CC BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-29187-3
- OCLC:
- 945783512
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004291874 DOI
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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