Mysticism Books
Peeters Publishers Amo Te, Sacer Ordo Carthusiensis: Jan De Grauwe,
Book SynopsisLe present livre est le premier numero de la nouvelle serie Studia Cartusiana qui paraitra comme sous-serie de la serie bien connue Miscellanea Neerlandica. Pour la premiere publication dans cette serie, les editeurs en chef Frans Hendrickx et Tom Gaens ont opte pour une reedition de certains articles extraits des actes publies - a titre personnel - a l'occasion de deux congres cartusiens et qui ne sont jamais parus dans les Analecta Cartusiana, serie dans laquelle sont publies regulierement depuis quatre decennies les articles presentes lors de congres internationaux traitant de l'histoire et de la spiritualite des chartreux. Cela concerne, d'une part, le congres qui s'est tenu du 16 au 19 septembre 1982 dans les trois villes flamandes Gand, Anvers et Bruges et, d'autre part, celui qui fut organise dans l'ancienne chartreuse de Zelem pres de Diest du 1 au 3 octobre 2001. La ou ce fut possible, les editeurs ont soumis aux auteurs les articles repris dans cet ouvrage afin de leur permettre d'y apporter des corrections ou des ajouts. De plus ils ont ajoute de nouvelles contributions, entre autres sur le chartreux diestois Pierre Dorlant a qui on a attribue la moralite Elckerlijc; cette attribution constitue, depuis la fin du 19e siecle, un des problemes les plus irritants de l'histoire de la litterature dramatique flamande medievale. Les deux congres precites ont un lien direct avec Jan De Grauwe. Il a su garder l'Ordre vivant a l'esprit de beaucoup et l'a sortit de l'anonymat, grace a ses innombrables etudes et conferences sur l'existence historique des chartreux dans les anciens Pays-Bas et par ses contacts personnels avec l'Ordre. Cette publication est pour nous l'occasion de reiterer toutes nos marques d'estime pour Jan De Grauwe, le grand connaisseur de l'histoire des chartreux dans nos contrees depuis les annees soixante-dix du 20e siecle. Il a trace le chemin a suivre et poser les jalons pour la recherche future, fondamentale et approfondie, dans les differents domaines de la science cartusienne.
£66.23
Peeters Publishers Hadewijch. The Complete Letters: Middle Dutch
Book SynopsisHadewijch, a Flemish beguine, who lived and wrote somewhere in Brabant during the thirteenth century, has brought mystical literature as a whole to its highest point. Hadewijch’s teaching is most accessible in her Letters, as there it is cast in a mould that succeeds in touching the senses as well as the mind. In her text, oral and written culture combine to form an organic unity: when Hadewijch writes, she not only builds sentences with words but composes sounds as well. In these mystical texts, minne (“love”) is pivotal as regards both form and content -- a distinction which Hadewijch largely overrides. As regards form, minne serves as a catchword which occurs everywhere, again and again, drawing together different parts and sections. As regards content, minne is the key to the mystical experience evoked by Hadewijch and refers as much to the person who lives the mystical union (along with the content of this feeling), as to the way in which this union makes itself felt. This edition of Hadewijch’s Letters includes the text of the 31 letters. The English text is not intended to be a word-for-word translation from the Middle Dutch, though it tries to keep closely to the original. Hadewijch’s own words, phrases and turns of phrase are transposed into the English text, especially when these are repeated and do not become a stumbling block for the present-day reader. There is a commentary to each Letter. However, the purpose in each case is not to accumulate the erudition of specialists or to comment on different interpretations. The aim is to encourage a slow and loving reading of the text itself, while trying to avoid any ready-made summary of what Hadewijch “has to say”. This edition also offers a new, sound-based lay-out of the text which is intended to assist an appreciation of the creativity of this gifted writer whose words and phrasing literally make music.
£70.81
Peeters Publishers Mysticism and Gender - Mística y género - Mystik
Book Synopsis2015 marks the five-hundredth anniversary of the Spanish mystic St. Teresa of Avila. This volume of the Journal of ESWTR is therefore dedicated to the issue of mysticism and gender. The mystical experience is a radical confrontation with oneself, where one recognizes one’s boundaries and is at the same time called to transgress them; it is a mystical transformation of the self that then will be able to transform unjust structures. Can mysticism today still unfold these capacities of transformation of self and societies, given the problems we are faced with? Using gender as a category of analysis, and adopting a gender-sensitive stand, the articles in this volume explore questions such as: How do issues of gender shape the relationship between mysticism and power? How have women mystics contributed to the field of mysticism? How can mysticism unfold a transformative power, both for individuals and societies? In short, what do we mean by mysticism today?
£59.85
Peeters Publishers Performing Bodies: Time and Space in Meister
Book SynopsisWhat is time, what is space and how do they relate to each other? Even to pose these questions is to presume their existence, says Meister Eckhart in his Commentary on Exodus, from where he then develops his own view on the subject. Although far from having become mainstream, his definition of time as presentiality and space as non-categorical creativity had an enormous influence throughout history, particularly in the arts. In this thematic volume the contributors explore the concepts of time and space in Eckhart's thought, situating these historically, philosophically, theologically, and culturally, whilst focusing on their interpretation in art works, particularly by the American-Korean performance and video artist Taery Kim (b. 1988) who refers explicitely to Eckhart. Kim advances the questions 'what is time?' and 'what is space?' as embodied questions in her performances and video installations, thus exploring Eckhart and inquiring into the ways we can think about our relationships, as embodied subjects, to the vagrancies and bindings of time and space now. Drawing together artists, art historians, theologians, and philosophers, as well as building on existing scholarship, this volume provides the first lengthy discussion of spatio-temporality in Eckhart's writings, highlighting Eckhart's relationship to performance art, and the works of Kim.
£83.39
Peeters Publishers ‘To Draw and Assemble All People unto God’: The
Book SynopsisThis volume offers the first book-length study in English of the life and work of the Early Modern mystical author Maria van Oisterwijk (+1547). It provides a detailed study of her remarkable life, which is discussed in its broader religious and historical context, her extensive spiritual network that included the Cologne Carthusians and the early Jesuits, and her mystical works, offering extensive quotations that are available here in English translation for the first time. In the final chapter, Maria van Oisterwijk’s mystical spirituality is placed in the broader context of the development of the mystical tradition in the Low Countries and its echoes in mystical writings up to the present day.
£65.48