From Virile Woman to WomanChrist : Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Flaws in the Golden Bowl: Gender and Spiritual Formation in the Twelfth Century -- Chapter 2. Authority, Authenticity, and the Repression of Heloise -- Chapter 3. "Crueel Corage": Child Sacrifice and the Maternal Martyr in Hagiography and Romance -- Chapter 4. On the Threshold of the Dead: Purgatory, Hell, and Religious Women -- Chapter 5. La mystique courtoise: Thirteenth-Century Beguines and the Art of Love -- Excursus 1. Hadewijch and Abelard -- Excursus 2. Gnostics, Free Spirits, and "Meister Eckhart's Daughter -- Chapter 6. WomanSpirit, Woman Pope -- Chapter 7. Renaissance Feminism and Esoteric Theology: The Case of Cornelius Agrippa -- Epilogue -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Appendix A. Religious Literature of Formation, 1075-1225 -- Appendix B. Glossary of Religious Women -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

"Barbara Newman has written an erudite and wonderful book. . . . From Virile Woman to WomanChrist should be required reading in every university-level women's studies course."--Caroline Walker Bynum, The Catholic Historical Review.

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