Hadewijch of Antwerp Research Papers (original) (raw)

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- Medieval Literature, Laughter, Mysticism, Cistercians

Intoxicated with poets and playwrights, our modern sensibilities quickly recoil from any notion of love put forth in economic terms. Love is not a cold monetary exchange, we might say, but rather a passionate giving of our hearts. However, the metaphors we use for love in our everyday lives reveals that we have yet to fully divorce ourselves from such economic conceptions. We speak of " investing in a relationship, " of the " give and take of relationships, " and how we are " unable to repay the love " given by the other. As the shortcomings of the purely Shakespearian love have been well elucidated by philosophers and theologians alike, I wish instead to focus on this latter conception of love as presented in our economic metaphors, specifically with reference to debt – a metaphor few authors have been willing to employ in their expositions. Using the work of Hadewijch, a 13 th century Christian mystic, and Kierkegaard, a Danish philosopher of the mid-19 th century, I want to propose that our economic metaphors for love may still be employed, and may in fact be helpful, but only within a Christian framework.

Chapter 4 of The Inner Ascent (2018)

- by John Noyce
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- Beguines, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Hadewijch of Antwerp, Jan van Ruusbroec

Mijn bacheloronderzoek spitste zich toe op de geschiedenis van het gebruik van Hadewijchs slotwoorden 'Vaert wel ende levet scone' en varianten hiervan. Deze slotzin is oorspronkelijk afkomstig uit haar zesentwintigste brief daterend uit de eerste helft van de 13e eeuw. Is er een loskoppeling tussen deze leuze en de historische figuur van Hadewijch vast te stellen of blijven beiden verweven met elkaar? Dit ben ik te weten gekomen door de weg of 'reis' van deze leuze te traceren

- by Arne Geybels
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- Discourse Analysis, Theology, Nationalism, Cultural Transfer Studies
- by John C Medendorp
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- Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Christian Mysticism

Hadewijch de Amberes fue una escritora y mística de la Edad Media (1200-1260) que nació en la ciudad de Bravante, Holanda. Su obra completa se resume en 14 visiones, 45 poemas estróficos y 31 cartas que compartía con sus pupilas.
Su obra fue más conocida póstumamente, en el siglo XIX, cuando fueron reeditados sus escritos. Su poesía está atiborrada de elementos pertenecientes al amor cortés, un concepto al cual se le atribuyen las imágenes de la vida caballeresca. El amor está presente en la poesía de Hadewijch de una forma particular, pues utiliza la representación caballeresca del amor, pero con los géneros invertidos: la mujer es la sierva y el objeto de su devoción es el Amor, el sentimiento que la autora expresa tiene su propio lenguaje, pues para ella "La divinidad es amor"

The main focus of this essay is the study of the image of the mirror in the works of religious women from the 13th and 14th centuries (Mechthild von Magdeburg, Hadewijch van Brabant and Marguerite Porete), especially regarding the Platonic tradition which links this image with the soul. I will examine fragments of their literary work in order to discuss some physiological, anthropological and theological preconceptions implied in the use of the mirror-image, especially those developments concerning self-knowledge and deification (theosis). Additionally, I analyze the relationships between the mirror and the "mystique courtoise," particularly with the theme of the Fountain of Narcissus.

- by Coralba Colomba
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- Christian Mysticism, Medieval Women, Spirituality & Mysticism, Beguines

This contribution examines the mystical literature of the Low Countries preceding John of Ruusbroec. Naturally, we do not intend to provide a complete overview, which would be utterly impossible within the constraints of one article. Nor is it this contribution's intention to identify Ruusbroec's literary or theological sources. Indeed, detailed research into Ruusbroec's sources has yet to be conducted. The intention of this contribution is merely to explore the mystical-spiritual landscape, and to indicate a number of important elements.

- by John Arblaster and +1
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- Medieval Theology, Medieval Mysticism, Middle Dutch, Hadewijch of Antwerp

The thirteenth-century Brabantine Beguine Hadewijch uses what Barbara Newman has termed “la mystique curtoise” to construct a devotional system of oscillating genders for both God and narrator; this complicated web of relations between the speaker of the poem and Minne (Love, most often allegorically personified as a courtly woman) produces a series of variations on the Brautmystik first developed in monastic commentaries on the Song of Songs. The poetic form of the Stanzaic Poems forces the reader or hearer to consider the coexistence of alternative temporalities in the moment of ecstatic fruition: the past moment of revelation or union Hadewijch describes, the present temporal moment of readerly experience, and the promise of an eternal heavenly future of constant fruition. This fusion of temporalities is closely linked to the use of erotic imagery in religious discourse; Jean-Luc Marion's recent phenomenological analysis of erotics offers a new theoretical approach to the intersection of time and love in the Brautmystik tradition. Hadewijch writes of the renewal of time in the circular procession of seasonal change even as she considers the need for a divine lover that is eternally new. The act of processing her metaphor-laden, intricately formed poetry provides the reader with a cognitive experience that mimics the representational and linguistic paradoxes of mystical writing itself.

- by Steven Rozenski
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- Medieval Theology, Phenomenology, Manuscript Studies, Poetics
- by Veerle Fraeters
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- Spirituality, Mysticism, Hadewijch of Antwerp, Medieval Beguines

Je donne ici quelques extraits de textes gnostiques coptes de Nag Hammadi, tels que je les ai trouvés traduits en français au début 2022, sur le site de la Bibliothèque Copte de Nag Hammadi, hébergé par l'Université Laval au Canada. Ces textes étant parfois embrouillés et difficiles, sans compter les lacunes, je me suis permis quelques « arrangements » et interprétations qui me paraissaient judicieux. Ils sont donc passés à travers mon filtre, les textes authentiques vous devrez ainsi aller les chercher vous-mêmes à la source. Je ne sais pas traduire le copte ni le syriaque, très peu le grec. L'Évangile selon Philippe a été traduit par M. Louis Painchaud. La Prôtennoi trimorphe est traduite par M. Paul-Hubert Poirier. L'interprétation de la gnose par MM. Louis Painchaud et Elnar Thomassen. Je conseille, pour ceux que le sujet de la gnose intéresse, de fréquenter les travaux de M. Jean-Marie Martin (1927-2021), prêtre, théologien et philosophe.

- by Alain Rolland
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- Gnosticism, Baptism, Kabbalah, Simon Magus

This paper analyzes the theory and practice of charity and social action of “beguines” and Castilian “beatas”. In order to illustrate the first point, we study a fundamental part of the spiritual theology of the beguine Hadewijch of Antwerp (13th century), because in her work she explained the mystical foundations of active lifestyle. The second arises as case study, the “beatas” of the city of Córdoba (15th century), with the review of their social action content.
En este trabajo se analizan la teoría y la práctica de la caridad y la acción social de beguinas y beatas. Para ilustrar la primera, se estudia una parte fundamental de la teología espiritual de la beguina Hadewijch de Amberes (siglo XIII), que en su obra expuso el fundamento místico de la forma de vida activa. En la segunda parte se plantea un estudio de caso, las beatas de la ciudad de Córdoba (siglo XV), en el que se revisan las características de su acción social contextualizada.

- by Roberto Schiavolin
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- Beguines, Hadewijch of Antwerp, Dominican Spirituality, Marguerite Porete
- by Alessandra Bartolomei Romagnoli and +1
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- Cultural History, Women's Studies, Medieval Literature, Hagiography

This article offers a critical discussion of Rudi Malfliet’s recent book De andere Hadewijch [The Other Hadewijch], in which it is contented that Hadewijch’s writings should be considered much more heterodox than it is usually assumed by a research tradition that is heavily indebted to a ‘particular religious perception and methodology’. The influence of Joachim of Fiore in particular should be considered crucial for a correct understanding of her works.
This article demonstrates that Malfliet’s understanding of the concept ‘beguine’ is anachronistic and that his joachimite, numerological and autobiographical interpretations of Hadewijch’s writings remain unconvincing. Finally it is shown that his reconstruction of Hadewijch’s biography is untenable, as it either lacks any documentary basis or results from preconceived interpretations of the literary and historical sources adduced.

- by Frank Willaert
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- Hadewijch of Antwerp
- by Niklaus Largier
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- Medieval Philosophy, Mysticism, Dietrich von Freiberg, Meister Eckhart
- by Douglas E Christie
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- Spirituality, Philosophy of Love, Loss and Trauma, Apophaticism
- by Niklaus Largier
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- Desert, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Hadewijch of Antwerp

A mística, quando praticada por mulheres, foi categorizada pela historiografia clássica como uma linguagem alegórica. Recentemente, entretanto, pesquisadores começaram a enxergá-la como uma
reformulação teológica da divindade. A pensadora e teóloga medieval Hadewijch de Amberes se destacou, dentre várias razões, por escrever acerca de suas visões sobre o divino em língua vernácula e demonstrar certa independência da Igreja oficial. Para compreendermos as visões de Hadewijch é necessário atentar-se, em primeiro lugar, ao quadro histórico-social em que a beguina viveu. Desta forma, o presente artigo tem o objetivo de apresentar, com base nas visões de Hadewijch de
Amberes, também chamada de Hadewijch de Antuérpia, o movimento beguinal e o amor e sua plenitude com o divino, esboçando as transformações do amor cortês para o amor divino a partir de seus escritos. O segundo objetivo é, então, delinear algumas das transformações que envolvem o amor cortês em amor divino por meio,
também, das visões de Hadewijch.

- by Carlos Eduardo Nicolette
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- Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Beguines
- by Michael Hahn
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- Medieval Theology, Monastic Studies, Medieval Ecclesiastical History, Mysticism

RESUMEN / ABSTRACT Este artículo tiene por objetivo mostrar a través del análisis de dos textos de dos místicas neerlandesas del siglo XIII, Beatrijs van Nazareth y la beguina de Amberes Hadewijch, los nuevos caminos emprendidos por la mística femenina del siglo XIII que llevan a la fusión de la escalera de las virtudes, los itinerarios de perfección y las formas de encuentro amoroso con la divinidad. Frente a una topografía ascensional que transcurre por un cierto número de grados, propia de las imágenes tradicionales de la escalera, se recurre aquí a la imagen del caleidoscopio para comprender el carácter circular de las nuevas aproximaciones y la necesidad de entender los itinerarios de perfección en concordancia con las nuevas prácticas espirituales de la mística amorosa. PALABRAS CLAVE: mística femenina, nuevo misticismo, itinerario de perfección, escalera, caleidoscopio. Kaleidoscopes of love in Medieval feMale MysticisM: Beatrijs van nazareth and hadewijch This paper aims to show, through the analysis of two texts by two Dutch mystics of the thirteenth century, Beatrijs van Nazareth and Hadewijch, the beguine from Ambers, the new paths undertaken by thirteenth-century female mysticism. These paths lead to the fusion of the stairway of virtues, the itineraries of perfection, and the ways of amorous encounter with the divinity. Confronting a fundamentally ascensional topography that goes through a certain number of levels, which is typical of the traditional imagery of the stairway, this paper turns to the image of the kaleidoscope to understand the circular character of these new approaches and the need to understand the itineraries of perfection in concordance with the new spiritual practices of amorous mysticism.

Resumo Hadewijch dialoga com os pensadores do patrimônio medieval cristão de maneira íntima, dada a sua erudição, ousando inserir aspectos absolutos em sua experiência, oferecendo, em sua obra, a possibilidade de uma hermenêutica feminina do Amor, a Minne medieval, que sustenta uma vida de ser Deus com Deus, não sem antes atravessar uma fisiologia humana e natural que sobrevive à dissolução de si mesma. Para tanto, pretende-se fazer uso dos Fundamentos filosóficos da mística medieval (1919/1920), de Martin Heidegger, para abordar fenomenologicamente a experiência mística de Hadewijch da Antuérpia, sem pretender com isso desmistificar a mística, ou seja, aceitá-la como um objeto de pesquisa filosófica, mas encontrar nessa experiência da Presença de Deus que a beguina da Antuérpia experimenta e relata, um solo de abertura para a realização prévia da experiência fundamental. A indagação filosófica de Hadewijch a Heidegger está implícita em sua experiência humana com Deus como aquela qu...

- by Alex Villas Boas
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- Theology, Phenomenology, Martin Heidegger, Heidegger

While traditionally Hadewijch scholarship has considered the lyrical ‘I’ in the Poems in Stanzas or Songs to be referring unequivocally to the author, Fraeters and Willaert in their new edition of the Liederen (2009) have opted to make a functional distinction within the ‘I’: the adhortative ‘I’ they refer to as Hadewijch, the expressive ‘I’ as ‘the loving soul’. In this article this decision is motivated and taken one step further by drawing in matters of genre. It is argued that the evident lyrical aspects of Hadewijch’s Songs have unduely overshadowed their narrative and epistolary qualities and that the generic hybridity of the Songs calls for a narratological rather than a poetical reading. In a narratological analysis the lyrical ‘I’ gives way to a pattern of two positions arises, a magistral and an exemplary one, which each are available to different subject positions and narrative view points. From a narratological analysis of Song 7 it becomes clear that either one of these positions is so infused with intertext that they cannot be linked directly and exclusively to the author without affecting their essentially exemplary character.

- by Veerle Fraeters
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- Medieval Literature, Mysticism, Subjectivity, Hadewijch of Antwerp
- by Racha Kirakosian
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- French Literature, German Literature, Medieval Literature, Medieval History

- by Maria Amaral
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- Theology, Phenomenology, Martin Heidegger, Heidegger
- by Ons Geestelijk Erf and +3
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- Cistercians, Medieval Sermons, Book ownership and use, Hadewijch of Antwerp
- by Eszter Kurticsán
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- Medieval Literature, Mysticism, Sufism, Dutch Literature

Contents of Ons Geestelijk Erf 2018/3/4 Jeroen Deploige and Veerle Fraeters Beatrice of Nazareth Revisited Sara Moens The Rise of Cistercian Nunneries in the Bishoprics of Liége and Cambrai Éric Delaissé Le rire dans l'hagiographie cistercienne John Arblaster The Mystical Fulfilment of a Spiritual Ideal. Common Love in Baldwin of Forde, Beatrice of Nazareth and the Vita Beatricis Rob Faesen Beatrice as a Theologian of Deification in the Vita Beatricis Kris Van Put The Seven Manners of Love as a Source of Hadewijch's Tenth Epistolary Poem

- by Veerle Fraeters
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- Philosophy, Hagiography, Mysticism, Spirituality & Mysticism
- by Godelinde Gertrude Perk
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- Julian of Norwich, Hadewijch of Antwerp