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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". x, 191pp. Bound in pictorial printed paper over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in white. Mild edgewear to binding, with bumping to extremities and dust soiling to fore-edge. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A nice first printing of this study of mystical anthropology, exploring the most important mystical authors and texts from the Low Countries including: William of Saint-Thierry, Hadewijch, Pseudo-Hadewijch, John of Ruusbroec, Jan van Leeuwen, Hendrik Herp, and the Arnhem Mystical Sermons, part of the Contemporary Theological Explorations in Mysticism series by Routledge. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The question of the 'structure' of the human person is central to many mystical authors in the Christian tradition. This book focuses on the specific anthropology of a series of key authors in the mystical tradition in the medieval and early modern Low Countries. Their view is fundamentally different from the anthropology that has commonly been accepted since the rise of Modernity. This book explores the most important mystical authors and texts from the Low Countries including: William of Saint-Thierry, Hadewijch, Pseudo-Hadewijch, John of Ruusbroec, Jan van Leeuwen, Hendrik Herp, and the Arnhem Mystical Sermons. The most important aspects of mystical anthropology are discussed: the spiritual nature of the soul, the inner-most being of the soul, the faculties, the senses, and crucial metaphors which were used to explain the relationship of God and the human person. Two contributions explicitly connect the anthropology of the mystics to contemporary thought. This book offers a solid and yet accessible overview for those interested in theology, philosophy, history, and medieval literature. (Publisher).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 2025. [xii], 292pp. Book is in excellent condition, with no inscriptions. All contents are tight and clean. "This book explores the rich and varied mystical writings by and about medieval - and a few early modern - women across Western Europe. Women had a profound and lasting impact on the development of medieval and early modern spiritual and mystical literature, both through their own writing and as a result of the hagiographical texts that they inspired. Bringing together contributions by both established and emerging scholars, the volume provides a valuable overview of medieval mystical women with a special focus on the Low Countries and Italy, regions that produced a disproportionately high number of female mystics. The figures discussed range from Hildegard of Bingen, Hadewijch, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, Angela of Foligno, Julian of Norwich, and Beatrice of Nazareth to lesser-known women such as Agnes Blannbekin, Christina of Hane, and Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi. The chapters address topics such as the body, pain, desire, ecstasy, stigmata, annihilation, virtue, visions, the tension between exterior and interior experience, and the nature of mystical union itself.". …

xi + 200pp., 24cm., softcover, in the series "Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia" volume LXVI (66), text in English, fine condition, ISBN 978-90-429-2606-6, R98881.