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Format: 1 online resource (367 p.)

ISBN: 9780231508612 , 0231508611

Series Statement: Gender, theory, and religion

Content: In Women, Men, and Spiritual Power, John Coakley explores male-authored narratives of the lives of Catherine of Siena, Hildegard of Bingen, Angela of Foligno, and six other female prophets or mystics of the late Middle Ages. His readings reveal the complex personal and literary relationships between these women and the clerics who wrote about them. Coakley's work also undermines simplistic characterizations of male control over women, offering an important contribution to medieval religious history.Coakley shows that these male-female relationships were marked by a fundamental tension between power and fascination: the priests and monks were supposed to hold authority over the women entrusted to their care, but they often switched roles, as the men became captivated with the women's spiritual gifts. In narratives of such women, the male authors reflect directly on the relationship between the women's powers and their own. Coakley argues that they viewed these relationships as gendered partnerships that brought together female mystical power and male ecclesiastical authority without placing one above the other. Women, Men, and Spiritual Power chronicles a wide-ranging experiment in the balance of formal and informal powers, in which it was assumed to be thoroughly imaginable for both sorts of authority, in their distinctly gendered terms, to coexist and build on each other. The men's writings reflect an extended moment in western Christianity when clerics had enough confidence in their authority to actually question its limits. After about 1400, however, clerics underwent a crisis of confidence, and such a questioning of institutional power was no longer considered safe. Instead of seeing women as partners, their revelatory powers began to be viewed as evidence of witchcraft.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: "You Draw Us After You" -- , Chapter 1. The Powers of Holy Women -- , Chapter 2. Revelation and Authority in Ekbert and Elisabeth of Schönau -- , Chapter 3. A Shared Endeavor? -- , Chapter 4. James of Vitry and the Other World of Mary of Oignies -- , Chapter 5. Self and Saint -- , Chapter 6. Hagiography and Theology in the Memorial of Angela of Foligno -- , Chapter 7. The Limits of Religious Authority -- , Chapter 8. Hagiography in Process -- , Chapter 9. Managing Holiness -- , Chapter 10. Revelation and Authority Revisited -- , Chapter 11. Authority and Female Sanctity -- , Notes -- , Abbreviations -- , Bibliography -- , Index , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781322353630

Additional Edition: ISBN 1322353638

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780231134002

Additional Edition: ISBN 0231134002

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/coak13400

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/coak13400

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/coak13400

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Format: 1 online resource (367 p.)

ISBN: 0-231-50861-1

Series Statement: Gender, theory, and religion

Content: In Women, Men, and Spiritual Power, John Coakley explores male-authored narratives of the lives of Catherine of Siena, Hildegard of Bingen, Angela of Foligno, and six other female prophets or mystics of the late Middle Ages. His readings reveal the complex personal and literary relationships between these women and the clerics who wrote about them. Coakley's work also undermines simplistic characterizations of male control over women, offering an important contribution to medieval religious history.Coakley shows that these male-female relationships were marked by a fundamental tension between power and fascination: the priests and monks were supposed to hold authority over the women entrusted to their care, but they often switched roles, as the men became captivated with the women's spiritual gifts. In narratives of such women, the male authors reflect directly on the relationship between the women's powers and their own. Coakley argues that they viewed these relationships as gendered partnerships that brought together female mystical power and male ecclesiastical authority without placing one above the other. Women, Men, and Spiritual Power chronicles a wide-ranging experiment in the balance of formal and informal powers, in which it was assumed to be thoroughly imaginable for both sorts of authority, in their distinctly gendered terms, to coexist and build on each other. The men's writings reflect an extended moment in western Christianity when clerics had enough confidence in their authority to actually question its limits. After about 1400, however, clerics underwent a crisis of confidence, and such a questioning of institutional power was no longer considered safe. Instead of seeing women as partners, their revelatory powers began to be viewed as evidence of witchcraft.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: "You Draw Us After You" -- , Chapter 1. The Powers of Holy Women -- , Chapter 2. Revelation and Authority in Ekbert and Elisabeth of Schönau -- , Chapter 3. A Shared Endeavor? -- , Chapter 4. James of Vitry and the Other World of Mary of Oignies -- , Chapter 5. Self and Saint -- , Chapter 6. Hagiography and Theology in the Memorial of Angela of Foligno -- , Chapter 7. The Limits of Religious Authority -- , Chapter 8. Hagiography in Process -- , Chapter 9. Managing Holiness -- , Chapter 10. Revelation and Authority Revisited -- , Chapter 11. Authority and Female Sanctity -- , Notes -- , Abbreviations -- , Bibliography -- , Index , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-322-35363-8

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-231-13400-2

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/coak13400

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 354 pages)

Edition: Online-Ausg.

ISBN: 0231134002 , 0231508611 , 9780231134002 , 9780231508612

Series Statement: Gender, theory, and religion

Content: In Women, Men, and Spiritual Power, John Coakley explores male-authored narratives of the lives of Catherine of Siena, Hildegard of Bingen, Angela of Foligno, and six other female prophets or mystics of the late Middle Ages. His readings reveal the complex personal and literary relationships between these women and the clerics who wrote about them. Coakley's work also undermines simplistic characterizations of male control over women, offering an important contribution to medieval religious history. Coakley shows that these male-female relationships were marked by a funda

Content: 9. Managing Holiness Raymond of Capua and Catherine of Siena10. Revelation and Authority Revisited John Marienwerder on Dorothy of Montau; 11. Authority and Female Sanctity: Conclusions; NOTES; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index

Content: Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: "You Draw Us After You"; 1. The Powers of Holy Women; 2. Revelation and Authority in Ekbert and Elisabeth of Schönau; 3. A Shared Endeavor? Guibert of Gembloux on Hildegard of Bingen; 4. James of Vitry and the Other World of Mary of Oignies; 5. Self and Saint Peter of Dacia on Christine of Stommeln; 6. Hagiography and Theology in the Memorial of Angela of Foligno; 7. The Limits of Religious Authority Margaret of Cortona and Giunta Bevegnati; 8. Hagiography in Process Henry of Nördlingen and Margaret Ebner

Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-344) and index , In English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0231134002

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780231134002

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Coakley, John Wayland Women, men, and spiritual power New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006

Language: English

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Format: x, 354 p.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Series Statement: Gender, theory, and religion

Language: English

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Format: X, 354 S. , 24 cm

ISBN: 0231508611 , 0231134002

Series Statement: Gender, theory, and religion

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Language: English

Keywords: Heilige ; Klerus ; Autorität ; Frauenmystik ; Geschichte 1150-1400

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