A Hidden Wisdom: Medieval Contemplatives on Self-Knowledge, Reason, Love, Persons, and Immortality

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Product details:

• ISBN 10: 0192606166
• ISBN 13: 9780192606167
• Author: Christina Van Dyke

Medieval philosophy is primarily associated today with university-based disputations and the authorities cited in those disputations. In their own time, however, scholastic debates were recognized as just one part of wide-ranging philosophical and theological discussions. A Hidden Wisdom breaks new ground by drawing attention to another crucial component of these conversations: the Christian contemplative tradition.

The period from 1200 to 1500, in particular, saw a dramatic increase in the production and consumption of mystical and contemplative literature in the ‘Christian West’, by laypeople as well as religious scholars, women as well as men. A Hidden Wisdom focuses on five topics of particular interest to both scholastics and contemplatives in this period, namely, self-knowledge, reason and its limits, love and the will, persons, and immortality and the afterlife. This focus centers the (often overlooked) contributions of medieval women and demonstrates that when we re-unite scholasticism with its contemplative counterpart, we gain not only a more accurate understanding of the scope of medieval Christian philosophy and theology but also an increased awareness of a deeply practical tradition that builds up as well as tears down, generates as well as deconstructs.

Table contents:

1. Mysticism, Methodology, and Epistemic Justice
Interlude One: Who is this book about? Timeline of Figures
2. Self-Knowledge
Interlude Two: What is a beguine?
3. Reasons and its Limits
Interlude Three: When did reading become a sign of religious devotion for women?
4. Love and the Will
Interlude Four: Where does the erotic imagery of medieval mystics come from?
5. Persons
Interlude Five: Why Do Medieval Women Talk like They Hate Themselves?
6. Immortality and the Afterlife

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