The middle English mystics. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Studien zur englischen Mystik des Mittelalters unter besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Metaphorik.
• Further Information: Note: Wolfgang Riehle ; translated by Bernard Standring.
• Authors: Riehle, Wolfgang, 1937-
• Contents: Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Public for Mystical Literature in England -- 2. The Interrelation Between Continental and English Mysticism -- 3. The Song of Songs and Metaphors for Love in English Mysticism -- 4. Metaphors for the Preparation for the Unio Mystica Man's Withdrawal into Himself; The Soul's 'Emptying Itself' as Prerequisite for the Unio Mystica The Laying Bare of the Soul Mystical Annihilation -- 5. Metaphors for the Way of the Soul to God -- 6. Metaphors for Speaking About God in English Mysticism -- 7. Technical Terms for the Mystical Union and for Ecstasy Unio and Unitas of Man and God Extasis and Excessus Mentis The Mystical Raptus The Familiaritas cum Deo The Commercium cum Deo -- 8. The Experience of God as a Spiritual Sense Perception. 8.1. The Unio as Mystical Enjoyment of God ; 8.1a. The Fruitio Dei ; 8.1b. The Eating and Tasting of God ; 8.2. Felen and Feling as Mystical Terms ; 8.3. The Touching of Man and God ; 8.4. The Unio Mystica as a Smelling and Hearing or Speaking of God ; 8.5. Excursus: The Significance of Metaphors in Music in English Mysticism ; 8.6. The Visio Dei -- 9. The Metaphorical Complex of Having God -- 10. The Mystical Experience of God as Rest, Sleep, Death and Complete Absorption of the Self -- 11. The Image of God in the Soul, Mystical Deification and Union in the Ground of the Soul. 11.1. The Imago and Similitudo Character of the Soul and its Reformatio ; 11.2. The Deification of the Soul ; 11.3. The Ground of the Soul in English Mysticism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Middle English Word Index -- Index of Names and Titles.
• Publisher Details: Abingdon : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 248.2/2/0141; English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism; Christian literature, English (Middle) -- History and criticism; Mysticism -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Mysticism -- Terminology; Figures of speech; Metaphor; Mystiek; Taal; Middeleeuwen; Christian literature, English (Middle); English literature -- Middle English; Figures of speech; Metaphor; Mysticism; Mysticism -- Middle Ages; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; England; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History; Terminology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429265525; 0429265522; 9780429556067; 0429556063; 9780429565007; 0429565003; 9780429560538; 0429560532
• Related ISBNs: 9780367211141; 9780367211318
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 1, 2019).
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