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Mechthild of Magdeburg: Women Philosophers and the Visionary Tradition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Jane Duran
Jane Duran*
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University of California at Santa Barbara, Graduate School of Education, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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New Blackfriars , Volume 87 , Issue 1007 , January 2006 , pp. 43 - 49
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© The Author 2006. Journal compilation © The Dominican Council/Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2006, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA

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References

1 See, for example, Gardner, Catherine Villanueva, Rediscovering Women Philosophers, Boulder: Westview Press, 1999Google Scholar.

2 Some are concerned that the most available and most widely distributed versions of Hildegard's work seem to be those published by Bear & Co. of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

3 Extensive comment on the extent to which Mechthild's work may have been used by later thinkers (including Dante) is to be found in Tobin, Frank, Mechthild von Magdeburg: a Medieval Mystic in Modern Eyes, Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1995Google Scholar.

4 Ibid., p. 113

5 Ibid., ibid.

6 Cited in Tobin, p. 134.

7 Ibid., p. 135.

8 See fn. 6.

9 Mechthild of Magdeburg, in Beguine Spirituality, ed. Bowie, Fiona, New York: Crossroad, 1990, p. 61Google Scholar. (Citations from Mechthild taken from the Morel edition, and translated by Oliver Davies.)

10 Gardner, Rediscovering, p. 163.

11 Ibid., p. 152.

12 Bowie, in Beguine, p. 30.

13 Ibid., p. 20.

14 See fn. 10.

15 Ibid., pp. 50–51.

16 Ibid., p. 50.

17 Chervin, Ronda de Sola, Prayers of the Women Mystics, Ann Arbor: Servant Publications, 1992, p. 19Google Scholar.

18 Ibid., p. 21. (The original is identified only by Chervin as “In Praise of God.”)

19 Bowie, in Beguine, p. 69.