God's Words, Women's Voices: The Discernment of Spirits in the Writing of Late-Medieval Women Visionaries

Abstract

Women and vision - the devil's gateway: mystics and visionaries, classical and Christian misogyny, the Medieval Church and women's spirituality, women, vision and discretio spirituum seducing spirits - the discourse of discretio spirituum, discretio spirituum - definition and development, the role of the spiritual director of visionaries, popular knowledge of discretio spirituum, discretio spirituum and women visionaries the lady vanishes - Bridget of Sweden - the woman behind the visionary,, Epistola solitarii ad reges, Sancta Birgitta Revelaciones Margery Kempe - the woman who would not go away - the tangled text, the woman behind the text, Margery's mixed blessing, discretio spirituum in The Book of Margaret Kempe, exit the woman. Appendix: the Epistola solitarii ad reges of Alfonso of Jaen - an edition of the text in London, British Library, MS Cotton Julius Fii.

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