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By Patricia Dailey
In Christianity, the physique is a almost certainly transformative car, and the writings of Hadewijch of Brabant, a thirteenth-century beguine, have interaction with this custom in methods either singular to her mysticism and indicative of her theological milieu. This examine hyperlinks the embodied poetics of Hadewijch's visions and letters to the paintings of such mystics and visionaries as Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, and Marguerite of Oingt. It introduces new standards for re-assessing the fashion, language, interpretative practices, kinds of literacy, and makes use of of textuality in women's mystical texts.