Edhessa
Edhessa or Vodena , city (1991 pop. 17,659), capital of Pella prefecture, N Greece, in Macedonia. It is a rail and road junction and an agricultural trading center. Textiles are manufactured. Known as Aegae in antiquity, it was the earliest seat of the Macedonian kings. After Philip II moved (4th cent. BC) the Macedonian capital to Pella, it continued to be the royal burial place.
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Passionate Spirituality: Hildegard of Bingen and Hadewijch of Brabant.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Spirituality: Hildegard of Bingen and Hadewijch of Brabant. By Elizabeth A. Dreyer...Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) and Hadewijch of Brabant (mid-thirteenth century...century German Benedictine Abbess, and Hadewijch was a Flemish Beguine-a member of a...
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Trinitarian love mysticism: Ruusbroec, Hadewijch, and the gendered experience of the divine (1).
Magazine article from: Church History; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...poetry of a woman known only as "beata Hadewijch." The priest prized the manuscript...6)--but Ruusbroec's reliance on Hadewijch's metaphor of courtly love has only...examination of the parallels between Hadewijch and Ruusbroec's theology, a heavily...
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A MYSTIC IN THE CATHEDRAL: MUSIC, IMAGE, AND SYMBOL IN ANDRIESSEN'S HADEWIJCH
Magazine article from: The American Journal of Semiotics; 10/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...century Beguine, mystic, and poet, Hadewijch. She is the heroine of the second part...Andriessen's work, let me briefly introduce Hadewijch, as she is portrayed by 20th-century...medievalist and the editor of The Visions of Hadewijch, and Mother Columba Hart O.S.B...
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Hadewijch and Her Sisters: Other Ways of Loving and Knowing.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 6/1/1994; ; 665 words
; ...reading of the 13th-century Beguine, Hadewijch of Antwerp shows her anticipating theories...Heyward, Hunt, Lorde, and Ruether. Hadewijch is more radical than they in her insistence...loving and knowing (94). Part 1, "Hadewijch and the Mutuality of Love," compares...
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Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg and Marguerite Porete / Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 7/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics:Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete. Edited by Bernard McGinn. (New York: Continuum. 1994. Pp. x...
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Theological Breadth, Interconnection, Tradition, and Gender: Hildegard, Hadewijch, and Julian Today
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; As women theologians, especially, have made dear, we and our world are complex. We need theology which relates that complexity coherently to God. In that regard there is something to be learned from medieval theological reflections, which are often much more comprehensive than we may imagine or
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WRITING BEGUINES: ECSTATIC PERFORMANCES
Magazine article from: Magistra; 7/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...ecstatic literature is the Visions of Hadewijch of Antwerp, a thirteenth century beguine...Brabant. No vita was ever written about Hadewijch so, unlike Ida of Nivelles, there is...audience. However, there is no doubt that Hadewijch had an audience. She lived in the Low...
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The Defiant Muse: Dutch and French Flemish Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology. Maiike Meijer, intro. and co-ed., and Erica Kijsker, Ankie Peypers, and Yopie Prins, co-eds.
Magazine article from: Transformations; 3/31/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...visionary Thirteenth-Century mystic Hadewijch is likewise provocative, though in a different way. Hadewijch personifies minne, an insatiable love...God as a stereotypically evil woman, Hadewijch recuperates ideas like "seduction...
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Langages mystiques et avenement de la modernite.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...late medieval and early modern writers: Hadewijch of Antwerp, Ramon Lull, Catherine of...early thirteenth century writings of Hadewijch to those of St John of the Cross, who...by origin; the works of the Flemish Hadewijch and the Italian Catherine were translated...
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Marathon concert offers a mixed bag
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/8/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...end, with the American premiere of "Hadewijch" by this summer's composer-in...different ways that spirit animates matter. Hadewijch was a Dutch nun of the Middle Ages...and therein lies the miracle; for Hadewijch, ecstasy is a matter of fact. The performance...
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Hadewijch
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Hadewijch, 13th-cent. contemplative writer. She spoke the dialect of Brabant...in Couplets (25-9) are now attributed to a follower, ‘Hadewijch II’; the authorship of others (17-24) is disputed.
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Hadewijch of Antwerp
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Hadewijch of Antwerp (Christian mystical writer): see RHENO-FLEMISH SPIRITUALITY .
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Dutch and Flemish literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...thus the bourgeois spirit was expressed in the works of Jacob van Maerlant and in the Dutch versions of Reynard the Fox. Hadewijch , John Ruysbroeck , and Gerard Groote spoke the language of mysticism . By the 14th cent., chivalry and scholasticism had...
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mysticism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Anselm , St. Bernard of Clairvaux , Hildegard of Bingen , Joachim of Fiore , Richard of Saint Victor , Hugh of Saint Victor , Hadewijch , St. Gertrude, St. Francis , Jacopone da Todi , St. Bonaventure , St. Thomas Aquinas , Ramon Lull , Dante , Eckhart...
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host
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...many places as possible in one day. The host played an important part in the spirituality of some women religious, such as Hadewijch, Catherine of Genoa, and Catherine of Sienna, in the late Middle Ages: they fasted, surviving only on the consecrated...
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