IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 653: It's Personal: The Impact of Lived Experience on the Conceptualization of the Sacred, II
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Amanda Langley, School of History, Queen Mary University of London |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Lydia Shahan, Institute for the Study of Spirituality, KU Leuven / Ruusbroecgenootschap, Universiteit Antwerpen |
| Paper 653-a | Material Culture in Mysticism?: Gertrude of Helfta Says 'Yes' (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism, Theology, Women's Studies |
| Paper 653-b | Being Present with the Lord: Ecstasies, Auditions, and Agnes Blannbekin's Interactions with the Divine (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism, Theology, Women's Studies |
| Paper 653-c | Sometimes a Hug Is Just a Hug: Sex and Chastity in Margery Kempe and Other Late Medieval Female Mystics (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Sexuality, Theology, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | Scholarship on the lived experiences of female mystics generally focuses on how these experiences contributed to the construction of holy women's selfhood and their wider social roles. Less attention has been paid to how such personal histories influenced the conceptualization of the divine within late medieval female affective piety. The panel will examine the different articulations of the unio mystica in light of the individual experiences of holy women and explore how such an approach allows us to look at the work of late-medieval female mystics no longer as a homogenous corpus but as an ensemble of unique and idiosyncratic texts. |