RT Article
T1 The Arrow and the Ecstasy: The Rhetoric of Rapture in French Carmelite Poetry
JF Journal of Early Modern Christianity
VO 10
IS 2
SP 299
OP 316
A1 Hanna, Daniel J.
LA English
PB De Gruyter
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1870251695
AB Recently discovered manuscript poems from the archives of French Carmelite convents show that seventeenth-, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Carmelite women recalled, celebrated, aspired to and - by their accounts - achieved religious rapture. The attainment of spiritual ecstasy and the expression of such extraordinary religious experience was not, however, a simple matter for women of this time period. In this study it will be shown that French Carmelite women used a "rhetoric of rapture" established by their spiritual mother, Teresa of Ávila, in order to lend legitimacy to their spiritual experiences and to safeguard those experiences from scrutiny.
K1 Bernini
K1 French Carmelites
K1 Teresa of Ávila
K1 Ecstasy
K1 Rapture
DO 10.1515/jemc-2023-2049