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    Between Exaltation and Infamy

Between Exaltation and Infamy

Stephen Haliczer
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      The Counter-Reformation saw an upsurge of feminine religious enthusiasm without parallel since medieval times. Inspired by new translations of the lives of the saints, devout women all over Catholic Europe sought to imitate these "athletes of Christ" through extremes of self-abnegation, physical mortification and devotion. Just as in the Middle Ages, women's piety expressed itself especially in mystical experiences manifested in such phenomena as visions,revelations, voices, stigmata and ecstasies. This book offers a comprehensive look at this Golden Age of women's mysticism as it flourished in 16th- and 17th-century Spain, where it almost took on the character of a mass movement. For his study Haliczer draws on 15 cases brought by the Inquisition against womenaccused of "feigned sanctity" and on 30 biographies and autobiographies of women mystics. By examining their lives, Haliczer seeks to understand the forces that caused these individuals to choose a life of self-abnegation and ecstatic worship. Overall, he shows how mysticism provided women with a way to transcend, rather than to disrupt, the control of the male-dominated Church.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Stephen Haliczer EAN: 9780195148633 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 517 g HEIGHT: 236 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-09-19 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Mysticism, RELIGION / Spirituality WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Spain, c 1500 onwards to present day, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Gender studies: women and girls, European history, Christianity, Mysticism

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      Stephen Haliczer is Distinguished Research Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Sexuality in the Confessional: A Sacrament Profaned (Oxford, 1996) and many other books and articles.
      The Counter-Reformation saw an upsurge of feminine religious enthusiasm without parallel since medieval times. Inspired by new translations of the lives of the saints, devout women all over Catholic Europe sought to imitate these "athletes of Christ" through extremes of self-abnegation, physical mortification and devotion. Just as in the Middle Ages, women's piety expressed itself especially in mystical experiences manifested in such phenomena as visions,revelations, voices, stigmata and ecstasies. This book offers a comprehensive look at this Golden Age of women's mysticism as it flourished in 16th- and 17th-century Spain, where it almost took on the character of a mass movement. For his study Haliczer draws on 15 cases brought by the Inquisition against womenaccused of "feigned sanctity" and on 30 biographies and autobiographies of women mystics. By examining their lives, Haliczer seeks to understand the forces that caused these individuals to choose a life of self-abnegation and ecstatic worship. Overall, he shows how mysticism provided women with a way to transcend, rather than to disrupt, the control of the male-dominated Church.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Stephen Haliczer EAN: 9780195148633 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 517 g HEIGHT: 236 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-09-19 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Mysticism, RELIGION / Spirituality WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Spain, c 1500 onwards to present day, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Gender studies: women and girls, European history, Christianity, Mysticism

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      Stephen Haliczer is Distinguished Research Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Sexuality in the Confessional: A Sacrament Profaned (Oxford, 1996) and many other books and articles.

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