The Arrow and the Ecstasy: The Rhetoric of Rapture in French Carmelite Poetry
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...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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De Gruyter
2023
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Journal of Early Modern Christianity
Año: 2023, Volumen: 10, Número: 2, Páginas: 299-316 |
| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | CB Existencia cristiana KAH Edad Moderna KBG Francia KCA Órdenes y congregaciones NBE Antropología |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Ecstasy
B Rapture B Teresa of Ávila B Bernini B French Carmelites |
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| Sumario: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-6656 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Journal of Early Modern Christianity
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/jemc-2023-2049 |