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Date Permissions Signed
11-6-2010
Date of Award
2010
Document Type
Masters Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
History
First Advisor
Eurich, S. Amanda, 1956-
Second Advisor
Diehl, Peter D.
Third Advisor
Vulić, Kathryn R., 1972-
Abstract
The purpose of this work is to look specifically at the writings of ten female mystics from the late medieval and early modern period and examine the intentional use of rhetoric by female mystics to procure the agency to address concerns about religion and society.
Type
Text
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25710/jttz-x514
Publisher
Western Washington University
OCLC Number
693777461
Subjects – Names (LCNAF)
Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179; Catherine, of Siena, Saint, 1347-1380; Mechthild, of Magdeburg, approximately 1212-approximately 1282; Julian, of Norwich, b. 1343; Kempe, Margery, approximately 1373-; Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1515-1582; De' Pazzi, Maria Maddalena, Saint, 1566-1607; Jesus, Ursula de, 1604-1666; Poole, Elizabeth; Bowers, Bathsheba, 1672 or 3-1718
Subject – LCSH
Women mystics--History; Women--Religious aspects--Christianity--History
Format
application/pdf
Genre/Form
masters theses
Language
English
Rights
Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this thesis for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author's written permission.
Recommended Citation
Thompson, Carly F. (Carly Florine), "Becoming the mouthpiece of God: female Christian mystics from the twelfth-to the eighteenth-century" (2010). WWU Graduate School Collection. 88.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwuet/88