Thousands and Thousands of Lovers

Thousands and Thousands of Lovers

Sense of Community among the Nuns of Helfta

Harrison, Anna

Liturgical Press

09/2022

536

Mole

Inglês

9780879072896

15 a 20 dias

644

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Contents

Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Preface xv
Introduction xxvii

PART ONE
The Nuns

Chapter 1
"Oh! What Treasure Is in This Book?":
Writing, Reading, and Community 3
Chapter 2
"A Queen Is Magnanimous at Her King's Banquet":
Relationships among the Nuns 57
Chapter 3
"Tears and Sighs":
Community in Illness, Death, and Grief 116
Chapter 4
"I Am Wholly Your Own":
Liturgy and Community 161

PART TWO
Within and Beyond the Cloister

Chapter 5
"A Husband Enjoys His Wife More Freely in Private":
The Nuns and the Clergy 215
Chapter 6
"The People Are Also My Members":
Community Within and Beyond the Monastery 257

PART THREE
The Living and the Dead

Chapter 7
"Give Her All That Is Yours":
Community and the Population of Purgatory 301
Chapter 8
"Unite Yourself with His Family":
Community with Mary and the Saints 353

Epilogue 433
Bibliography 439
Index 479
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Cistercian nuns; Helfta