| #1955127 in Books | York Medieval Press | 1999-04-08 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.56 x6.14l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 216 pages | |||A valuable and welcome contribution to an understanding of some of the imperatives in the religious lives of medieval women and the potential for female empowerment within the discourse of discretio spirituum. --Notes and Queries
The doctrine of dis
Awareness of the ecclesiastical doctrine of discretio spirituum (the means of testing whether visions were truly of divine origin) was vital for medieval women visionaries. Visions and prophecy offered medieval women one of the few pathways to the religious and, in some cases, the political life of their time, but were subject to stringent checks due to the combination of women (deceitful by nature) and deceiving visions. However, those women visionaries who confo...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.God's Words, Women's Voices: The Discernment of Spirits in the Writing of Late-Medieval Women Visionaries (York Medieval Texts Ser) | Rosalynn Voaden. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
