Mystical language of sensation in the later Middle Ages

Author(s)

• Rudy, Gordon

Bibliographic Information

Mystical language of sensation in the later Middle Ages

Gordon Rudy

（Studies in medieval history and culture, 14）

Routledge, 2002

Note

"A Routledge series"

Includes bibliographical references (p 163-176) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

First Published in 2002. This book is about the way medieval authors wrote about union with God and how they used language that refers to the senses to articulate their ideas about how a person can be one with God. Rudy argues that such explicit concepts of the spiritual senses are not sharply distinct from the ideas implicit in broader usage of sensory language in theological writings. These ideas are significant in the history of Christian mysticism, because language that refers to the senses bears directly on several ideas that are central to ideas about union with God.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 Sensory Language and Theological Concepts
• Chapter 2 Other Senses
• Chapter 3 Bernard of Clairvaux
• Chapter 4 Hadewijch
• Chapter 5 Echoes and Ambiguities

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Details

• NCID: BA61931716
• ISBN:
  • 0415940702
• LCCN: 2002004216
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 188 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BT767.7
  • DC21 : 248.2/2/0902
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Mystical union -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
  • LCSH : Taste -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
  • LCSH : Touch -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
  • LCSH : Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153
  • LCSH : Hadewijch, 13th cent
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA54827430