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Elizabeth
Ruth Obbard, ed.
Medieval Women Mystics: Gertrude the Great, Angela
of Foligno, Birgitta of Sweden, Julian of Norwich: Selected Spiritual
Writings.
New York: New City
Press, 2002.
158pp.
Paperback ISBN
1565481577.
Publisher's
recommended price $13.95
"This
is
an excellent
introduction to some of the most fascinating women of the high Middle
Ages.
The women chosen represent well the great variety of religious
creativity
found during the period: Gertrude, living the traditional Benedictine
monastic
life but influenced by the new spirit of romanticism introduced by
Bernard
of Clairvaux; Angela, the wife and mother who became a Franciscan
tertiary;
Birgitta, noblewoman and foundress of a new mixed community of men and
women; and Julian, the recluse who produced a remarkable work of
theology.
Elizabeth Obbard's introductions clearly set the stage for reading
these
women with profit. Her selections from each woman's writings are well
chosen
and edited, and ample enough to provide a feel for each woman's style
and
content. Altogether, this book is a great contribution to the ongoing
study
of medieval women writers..." Joan M. Nuth, author of God's Lovers
in
an Age of Anxiety.
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