LEADER 04766nam 2200805Ia 450 001 9910782360003321 005 20210525030309.0 010 $a9786612087202 010 $a1-282-08720-7 010 $a1-4008-2602-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826025 035 $a(CKB)1000000000548159 035 $a(EBL)445475 035 $a(OCoLC)298104969 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000084710 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11123950 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084710 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10169328 035 $a(PQKB)10537180 035 $a(OCoLC)899265057 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36351 035 $a(DE-B1597)446437 035 $a(OCoLC)979578330 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826025 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445475 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284088 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208720 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445475 035 $a(dli)HEB04167 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000005690222 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000548159 100 $a20030721d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aProving woman$b[electronic resource] $efemale spirituality and inquisitional culture in the later Middle Ages /$fDyan Elliott 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (366 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-11860-4 311 0 $a0-691-05956-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [305]-331) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction --$tChapter One. Sacramental Confession as Proof of Orthodoxy --$tPART 1. Women as Proof of Orthodoxy --$tChapter Two. The Beguines: A Sponsored Emergence --$tChapter Three. Elisabeth of Hungary: Between Men --$tPART 2. Inquisitions and Proof --$tChapter Four. Sanctity, Heresy, and Inquisition --$tChapter Five. Between Two Deaths: The Living Mystic --$tPART 3. The Discernment of Spirits --$tChapter Six. Clerical Quibbles --$tChapter Seven. John Gerson and Joan of Arc --$tConclusion --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aAround the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's most sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. Holy women's claims to be in direct communication with God placed them in positions of unprecedented influence. Yet by the end of the Middle Ages female mystics were frequently mistrusted, derided, and in danger of their lives. The witch hunts were just around the corner. While studies of sanctity and heresy tend to be undertaken separately, Proving Woman brings these two avenues of inquiry together by associating the downward trajectory of holy women with medieval society's progressive reliance on the inquisitional procedure. Inquisition was soon used for resolving most questions of proof. It was employed for distinguishing saints and heretics; it underwrote the new emphasis on confession in both sacramental and judicial spheres; and it heralded the reintroduction of torture as a mechanism for extracting proof through confession. As women were progressively subjected to this screening, they became ensnared in the interlocking web of proofs. No aspect of female spirituality remained untouched. Since inquisition determined the need for tangible proofs, it even may have fostered the kind of excruciating illnesses and extraordinary bodily changes associated with female spirituality. In turn, the physical suffering of holy women became tacit support for all kinds of earthly suffering, even validating temporal mechanisms of justice in their most aggressive forms. The widespread adoption of inquisitional mechanisms for assessing female spirituality eventuated in a growing confusion between the saintly and heretical and the ultimate criminalization of female religious expression. 410 0$aACLS Fellows? publications. 410 0$aATLA Special Series 606 $aWomen$xReligious life$xHistory 606 $aChurch history$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aMysticism$xHistory$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aWomen mystics$zEurope 606 $aHeresy$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aInquisition 615 0$aWomen$xReligious life$xHistory. 615 0$aChurch history 615 0$aMysticism$xHistory 615 0$aWomen mystics 615 0$aHeresy$xHistory 615 0$aInquisition. 676 $a270.5/082 700 $aElliott$b Dyan$f1954-$0845302 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782360003321 996 $aProving woman$92392255 997 $aUNINA