LEADER 04625nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910777553003321 005 20210806013026.0 010 $a0-231-50861-1 024 7 $a10.7312/coak13400 035 $a(CKB)1000000000460327 035 $a(EBL)909329 035 $a(OCoLC)64394427 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000273518 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11954734 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000273518 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10310383 035 $a(PQKB)10246434 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909329 035 $a(DE-B1597)458758 035 $a(OCoLC)979751594 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231508612 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL909329 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10602929 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL666645 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000460327 100 $a20050912d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWomen, men, and spiritual power$b[electronic resource] $efemale saints and their male collaborators /$fJohn W. Coakley 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (367 p.) 225 0 $aGender, theory, and religion 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-35363-8 311 $a0-231-13400-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: "You Draw Us After You" --$tChapter 1. The Powers of Holy Women --$tChapter 2. Revelation and Authority in Ekbert and Elisabeth of Schönau --$tChapter 3. A Shared Endeavor? --$tChapter 4. James of Vitry and the Other World of Mary of Oignies --$tChapter 5. Self and Saint --$tChapter 6. Hagiography and Theology in the Memorial of Angela of Foligno --$tChapter 7. The Limits of Religious Authority --$tChapter 8. Hagiography in Process --$tChapter 9. Managing Holiness --$tChapter 10. Revelation and Authority Revisited --$tChapter 11. Authority and Female Sanctity --$tNotes --$tAbbreviations --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn Women, Men, and Spiritual Power, John Coakley explores male-authored narratives of the lives of Catherine of Siena, Hildegard of Bingen, Angela of Foligno, and six other female prophets or mystics of the late Middle Ages. His readings reveal the complex personal and literary relationships between these women and the clerics who wrote about them. Coakley's work also undermines simplistic characterizations of male control over women, offering an important contribution to medieval religious history.Coakley shows that these male-female relationships were marked by a fundamental tension between power and fascination: the priests and monks were supposed to hold authority over the women entrusted to their care, but they often switched roles, as the men became captivated with the women's spiritual gifts. In narratives of such women, the male authors reflect directly on the relationship between the women's powers and their own. Coakley argues that they viewed these relationships as gendered partnerships that brought together female mystical power and male ecclesiastical authority without placing one above the other. Women, Men, and Spiritual Power chronicles a wide-ranging experiment in the balance of formal and informal powers, in which it was assumed to be thoroughly imaginable for both sorts of authority, in their distinctly gendered terms, to coexist and build on each other. The men's writings reflect an extended moment in western Christianity when clerics had enough confidence in their authority to actually question its limits. After about 1400, however, clerics underwent a crisis of confidence, and such a questioning of institutional power was no longer considered safe. Instead of seeing women as partners, their revelatory powers began to be viewed as evidence of witchcraft. 606 $aWomen mystics 606 $aAuthority$xReligious aspects$xCatholic Church 606 $aPower (Christian theology) 606 $aChurch history$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aMonasticism and religious orders 615 0$aWomen mystics. 615 0$aAuthority$xReligious aspects$xCatholic Church. 615 0$aPower (Christian theology) 615 0$aChurch history 615 0$aMonasticism and religious orders. 676 $a270.4/082 700 $aCoakley$b John W$g(John Wayland)$01559305 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777553003321 996 $aWomen, men, and spiritual power$93824287 997 $aUNINA