Description
Book SynopsisThe Golden Age of Spanish mysticism has traditionally been read in terms of individual authors or theological traditions. God Made Word, however, considers early modern Spanish mysticism as a question of language and as a discourse that circulated in concrete social, institutional, and geographic spaces.
Proposing a new reading of early modern Spanish mysticism, God Made Word traces the struggles over the representation of interiorized spiritual union the tension between making it known and conveying its unknowability far beyond the usual canon of mystic literature. Dale Shuger combines a study of genres that have traditionally been the object of literary study, including poetry, theatre, and autobiography, with a language-based analysis of other areas that have largely been studied by historians and theologians. Arguing that these generic separations grew out of an increasing preoccupation with the cultivation and control of interiorized spirituality, God
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Prayer Manuals 2. Mystic Poetry 3. Spiritual Autobiography 4. Mysticism before the Inquisition 5. Mysticism on Stage 6. The Missionary Impulse Bibliography
