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Medieval holy women and the desire for death / Jessica Barr.

By: Barr, Jessica (Jessica Gail), 1976- [author.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2026]Copyright date: ©2026Description: xvi, 270 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0268210942; 9780268210946Subject(s): Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500 | Mystics -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 | Women mystics -- Europe -- History -- To 1500LOC classification: BR253 | .B37 2026Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-261) and index.
Contents:
Why Die? The Ethical Value of Deathin Medieval Christianity -- The Girls' Guide to Loving Death: Scripting Desire in Anchoritic Guidesand Women's Spiritual Treatises -- Living Death from the Outside: Christina Mirabilis, Elizabeth of Spalbeek, Beatrice of Nazareth -- Living Death from the Inside: Mechthild of Magdeburg and Julian of Norwich -- Touching Absence: Relics, Scholarship, and the Academic Pilgrim.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-261) and index.

Why Die? The Ethical Value of Deathin Medieval Christianity -- The Girls' Guide to Loving Death: Scripting Desire in Anchoritic Guidesand Women's Spiritual Treatises -- Living Death from the Outside: Christina Mirabilis, Elizabeth of Spalbeek, Beatrice of Nazareth -- Living Death from the Inside: Mechthild of Magdeburg and Julian of Norwich -- Touching Absence: Relics, Scholarship, and the Academic Pilgrim.