Transformative Waters in Late-Medieval Literature

Transformative Waters in Late-Medieval Literature
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Artikel-Nr:
9781800102958
Veröffentl:
2021
Einband:
EPUB
Seiten:
222
Autor:
Hetta Elizabeth Howes
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

A consideration of the metaphor of water in religious literature, especially in relation to women.
A consideration of the metaphor of water in religious literature, especially in relation to women.

Women are frequently depicted as unpredictable, difficult to categorise and prone to transformation in medieval religious writings. Water is equally elusive: rivers, wells and seas slip and slide out of the readers' grasp as they alter in metaphorical meaning.

This book considers a large span of watery images in a small cluster of late-medieval devotional writings by and for women, in order to explore the association between women and water in the medieval religious imagination. Using writings by Aelred of Rievaulx, Julian of Norwich and a number of anonymous translators - as well as medical, scientific, and encyclopaedic works - it argues for water as an all-purpose metaphor with a particularly resonance for them. Its chapters are organised around a number of particular usages of water as a means of mediation and exchange between the human and the divine, from crossing a stream to dissolving in the peaceful sea of God's love. Through analysis of such recurring tropes, this book reveals that whilst water can be used to hint at transformation of the soul, and greater access to the divine, male authors also use the very same metaphorical material to regulate such access for their female readers.
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: In Search of Transformative Waters
Chapter One: A Very 'Able' Element
Chapter Two: Cleaning the Soul
Chapter Three: Speech and Scripture
Chapter Four: Transformative Immersion
Chapter Five: Blood and Water
Conclusion: Reading Water
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements

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