Review
"The Soul as Virgin Wife is a learned, subtle, and deeply intelligent study of three mystical theologians. Informed by feminist theory as well as thorough familiarity with late medieval religious culture, Amy Hollywood sifts through everything and takes nothing for granted. By reading Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart 'with and against' each other, she is able to recontextualize all three in a powerfully original way." - Barbara Newman, Professor of English and Religion, Northwestern University "This book is a 'marguerite,' a pearl. It can be read as a major contribution to our understanding of Mechthild, Marguerite, and Eckhart, and also as a major contribution to the study of women's religion in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. As if that were not enough, it is also studded with telling theoretical observations and enlivened by a running dialogue with a large array of current work in critical theory and feminist studies." - The Journal of Religion"
Product Description
A study of three mystical theologians - Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete and Meister Eckhart. By reading the theologians "with and against" each other, each one is recontextualized. The work is informed by feminist theory as well as familiarity with late medieval religious culture.
