Women Mystics in the Late Middle Ages: An Introduction

The majority of women mystics did live within religious communities, and these communities provided support for their mystical activities. Several convents were particularly noted for the number of mystics they "produced." Women religious in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries lived surrounded by images of the suffering Christ, his mother Mary, and the saints of the church. Their devotions frequently focused on images of suffering, motherhood, or sexuality. These women, and their mystical visions shall be the focus of my next few articles.

I'll happily provide bibliography for anyone interested, and please check out the medieval sites listed in my links as well as http://www.millersv.edu/~resound/women.h... and http://matrix.divinity.yale.edu/MatrixWe.... Both of these sites deal with medieval women, and include links to a number of interesting primary sources.

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