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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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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De Gruyter
2023
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Journal of Early Modern Christianity
Année: 2023, Volume: 10, Numéro: 2, Pages: 299-316 |
Classifications IxTheo: | CB Spiritualité chrétienne KAH Époque moderne KBG France KCA Monachisme; ordres religieux NBE Anthropologie |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Ecstasy
B Rapture B Teresa of Ávila B Bernini B French Carmelites |
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Résumé: | 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 |
Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of Early Modern Christianity
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/jemc-2023-2049 |