Visions and Longings Tapa dura - 1996

Hardback. Very Good.

United Kingdom: Mowbray. 248 pages. Very clean hardback with a dust jacket. Visions and Longings: Medieval Women Mystics . Very Good. Hardcover. 1996.

London : Mowbray, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: viii, 248p. ; 24cm. Subjects: Mysticism -- History -- Middle Ages (600-1500). Women mystics.

London: Mowbray & Co Ltd, 1996. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 96x0x147. The women mystics of medieval Europe represent the very first feminine voices heard in a world where women were nearly silent. As such, they are striking and unusual, strange, powerful and urgent. Monica Furlong uses key selections from among these women's own writings and writings about them by their contemporaries, along with her own assessment of them, to open up their contributions to a wide popular audience. The eleven women represented in this anthology were housewives, visionaries, abbesses, beguines, recluses, and nuns who wrote between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. They include: · Héloise, the scholar and abbess, whose letters to Abelard are treasure of medieval literature · Hildegard of Bingen, the visionary Rhineland nun · Clare of Assisi, the close friend of Saint Francis and founder of the Poor Clares · Catherine of… Leer más

Continuum International Publishing Group , . Hardback. Used.

Geoffrey, 1996. 1st. Hardcover. New/New.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.