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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151627003321

Autore

Nightingale Florence <1820-1910.>

Titolo

Florence Nightingale on mysticism and eastern religions [[electronic resource] /] / Gérard Vallée, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003

ISBN

1-280-92566-3

9786610925667

0-88920-573-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (581 p.)

Collana

Collected works of Florence Nightingale ; ; v. 4

Altri autori (Persone)

ValléeGérard <1933->

Disciplina

362.1/0942/09034

Soggetti

Mysticism

Christianity and other religions

Electronic books.

Asia Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Dramatis Personae; List of Illustrations; A Précis of the Collected Works; Introduction to Volume 4; Key to Editing; Notes from Devotional Authors; Letters and Diaries from Egypt; Letters and Notes on Eastern Religions; Appendix: Religious Books Used; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Mysticism and Eastern Religions, the fourth volume in the Collected Works and the third on Nightingale's religion, begins with the publication for the first time of Florence Nightingale's Notes on Devotional Authors of the Middle Ages, translations from and comments on the medieval (and some later) mystics who nourished her own life of faith. Next come her annotations of and comments on the Imitation of Christ, a book to which she turned in times of distress. The largest part of the volume consists of her Letters from Egypt, written 1849-50, a significant