Intimate Reading: Textual Encounters in Medieval Women's Visions and Vitae

by Jessica Barr

Intimate Reading: Textual Encounters in Medieval Women's Visions and Vitae explores the ways that women mystics sought to make their books into vehicles for the reader's spiritual transformation. Jessica Barr argues that the cognitive work of reading these texts was meant to stimulate intensely personal responses, and that the very materiality of the book can produce an intimate encounter with God. She thus explores the differences between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472131699
• ISBN13: 9780472131693
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"