Trinitarian love mysticism: Ruusbroec, Hadewijch, and the gendered experience of the divine (1). From: Church History | Date: September 1, 2003| Author: Boon, Jessica A. | COPYRIGHT 2003 American Society of Church History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In the early part of the fourteenth century, a parish priest in Brussels came into the possession of a manuscript containing the vernacular letters, visions, and poetry of a woman known only as "beata Hadewijch." The priest prized the manuscript, even recommending it to his fellow conventuals decades later, (2) and included its primary tropes of courtly love mysticism (Minnemystik) as an essential part of many of his writings on the active, interior, and contemplative ways to mysti...

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