Between Exaltation and Infamy: Female Mystics in the Golden Age of Spain. By Stephen Haliczer. pp. vi + 349. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. isbn 0 19 514851 7 and 514863 0. Hardback £45; paper £19.99
Haliczer's analysis draws on two major sources: a series of thirty biographies and autobiographies of female mystics active in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, and the records of fifteen cases brought to bear by the Inquisition on women accused of faking the symptoms of mystical experi...
| Published in: | The journal of theological studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2005
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The journal of theological studies
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| Review of: | Between exaltation and infamy (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2002) (Beresford, Andrew M.)
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| Summary: | Haliczer's analysis draws on two major sources: a series of thirty biographies and autobiographies of female mystics active in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, and the records of fifteen cases brought to bear by the Inquisition on women accused of faking the symptoms of mystical experience. This sample is supplemented by materials drawn from devotional works, theological treatises, Flos sanctorum, and various other types of Inquisition record. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fli219 |