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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Bernard of Clairvaux"”.
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Mystical Relations: A Study of Feminine Relationships with Christ in the High Middle Ages and Beyond
From a modern perspective, the notion of Christ as a feminized figure appears to stand contrary to long accepted Christian beliefs. However, Christ has been feminized in literature for centuries by women and men, nuns and monks, abbesses and abbots. This is not to say that Christ was not physically …
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Significant influences on the creation of the rose windows of Chartres Cathedral
… three significant influences on the creation of the rose windows of the Cathedral of Notre Dame at Chartres. The first area of influence lies in the cultural environment of the eleventh century, the second in the construction of the cathedral at Chartres, and the third in the medium of rose …
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Soul Recreation: Spiritual Marriage and Ravishment in the Contemplative-Mystical Piety of Isaac Ambrose
… Ravishment in the Contemplative-Mystical Piety of Isaac Ambrose This thesis examines the theology and piety of Isaac Ambrose (1604-1664), a moderate Lancashire Puritan minister. More specifically it raises the question about the nature of his spiritual practices and whether they reflect what …
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Images of God, Imago Dei and God's Relationship with Humanity Through the Image of Mary's Breast Milk: A Focus Upon Sor María Anna Águeda De San Ignacio (1695-1756)
… an original contribution to the academic field of Theology, specifically Constructive Theology, because it begins the retrieval work of a woman's voice from seventeenth and eighteenth century Mexico, an entire area of historical and theological thought which has been globally under-explored. …
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The Spiritual Pedagogy of the Cloud-author
This thesis focuses on the spiritual pedagogy of the anonymous fourteenth-century *Cloud*-author, the least studied of the great spiritual writers who flourished in late medieval England. This author teaches an extreme form of ‘apophatic’ contemplative practice that involves a suspension of the …
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From Fear of Hell to Love of Christ: The Monastic Devotional Use of MS K.21 in the Library of St. John's College, Cambridge
… and 115 hymns rubricated for use in the Divine Office. Interrupting this Latin material is a lengthy illustrated narrative presenting the Passion of Christ and the final years of the Virgin Mary via 101 Anglo-Norman text passages and 103 painted miniatures. The ninety-six extant folios of K.21 …
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Chaucer's "Naked Text" and the Tradition of the Medieval Sublime
… the familiar notion that the literary theory of the sublime did not exist during the middle ages. Analyzing the Latin tradition from the patristic period through the late medieval period, I argue for the vibrant presence of the sublime by documenting its centrality to medieval rhetoric, …
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The Artistic and Architectural Patronage of Countess Urraca of Santa MarÃa de Cañas: A Powerful Aristocrat, Abbess, and Advocate
<p>Countess Urraca Lope de Haro was the daughter of the noble Lord Diego Lope de Haro, friend and advisor to King Alfonso VIII of Castilla-León and granddaughter of Lord Lope Díaz de Haro and Lady Aldonza Ruiz de Castro, aristocratic courtiers as well as popular monastic patrons. As a young and …
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Identifying the Classical Theologia Crucis and in this Light Karl Barth's Modern Theology of the Cross
… parts. It first identifies the shape and content of an ancient system of Christian thought predicated on the theology of the cross of Jesus Christ, and proposes the marks typifying its theologians. Over against the ensuing hermeneutic it next finds the project of twentieth century Swiss theologian …