The culmination of de Certeau's lifelong engagement with the human sciences, this volume is both an analysis of Christian mysticism during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and an application of this influential scholar's transdisciplinary historiography.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
Original Language: French
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At the time of his death in 1986, Michel de Certeau was a director of studies at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. Of his many books, The Practice of Everyday Life, The Writing of History, and Heterologies: Discourse on the Other are available in English translation.
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Mystic literature did not begin in the sixteenth century, although it found its own name and formal features during the second half of that century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mystica clavis, reformed mystics, mystic discourse, allegoria facti, mystic phrases, mystic theology, idiot woman, modus loquendi, mystic texts, mystic science, théologie mystique, new mystics, sacramental body, les mystiques, mystical science, mystic language, positive theology, idiot man, corpus mysticum, extraordinary devotions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John of the Cross, Middle Ages, Teresa of Avila, Jesus Christ, Saint Paul, François Poiré, Diego de Jesús, Dionysius the Areopagite, Jean-Joseph Surin, Louis Lallemant, Saint Joseph, Society of Jesus, Ignatius of Loyola, Reverend Father, Madame Guyon, Meister Eckhart, Saint John, Friend of God, Pierre Coton, Saint Dionysius, Anna Maria, Anne Buignon, Bernard of Clairvaux, Francis of Sales, Hieronymous Bosch New!
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Mystic literature did not begin in the sixteenth century, although it found its own name and formal features during the second half of that century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mystica clavis, reformed mystics, mystic discourse, allegoria facti, mystic phrases, mystic theology, idiot woman, modus loquendi, mystic texts, mystic science, théologie mystique, new mystics, sacramental body, les mystiques, mystical science, mystic language, positive theology, idiot man, corpus mysticum, extraordinary devotions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John of the Cross, Middle Ages, Teresa of Avila, Jesus Christ, Saint Paul, François Poiré, Diego de Jesús, Dionysius the Areopagite, Jean-Joseph Surin, Louis Lallemant, Saint Joseph, Society of Jesus, Ignatius of Loyola, Reverend Father, Madame Guyon, Meister Eckhart, Saint John, Friend of God, Pierre Coton, Saint Dionysius, Anna Maria, Anne Buignon, Bernard of Clairvaux, Francis of Sales, Hieronymous Bosch New!
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- The Writing of History by Michel de de Certeau on 4 pages
- Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila on page 142, page 188, and page 189
- India Song by Marguerite Duras on page 31, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cornucopian Text: Problems in Writing in the French Renaissance by Terence Cave in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth and seventeenth century England by Keith Thomas in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Memory, History, Forgetting by Paul Ricoeur in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism (Jewish Culture and Contexts) by J. H. Chajes in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Brief History of Spirituality (Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion) by Philip Sheldrake in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Brief History of Spirituality (Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion) by Philip Sheldrake in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology by Vincent Crapanzano in Back Matter
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