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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Mystic Mind: the Psychology of Medieval Mystics and Ascetics]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A fascinating collaboration between a medieval historian and a professor of psychiatry, this enthralling book applies modern biological and psychological research findings to the lives of medieval mystics and ascetics. Drawing upon a database of over 1,400 medieval holy persons and in-depth studies of individual saints, this illuminating study examines the relationship between medieval mystical experiences, the religious practices of mortification; laceration of the flesh, sleep deprivation and extreme starvation, and how these actions produced altered states of consciousness and brain function in the heroic ascetics. Examining and disputing much contemporary writing about the political and gender motivations in the medieval quest for a closeness with God, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest in medieval religion or the effects of self-injurious behaviour on the mind. -- Amazon.com.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:tableOfContents><![CDATA[Part I. Psychology and biology. Heroic asceticism and self-injurious behavior -- Mysticism and altered states of consciousness -- Pain and laceration of the flesh -- Sleep deprivation -- Fasting and starvation -- Part II. History. Historical methods : selecting a database -- Pathways to holiness -- Radegund -- Beatrice of Nazareth -- Beatrice of Ornacieux -- Henry Suso -- Mental illness, hysteria, and mysticism -- Conclusion.]]></dcterms:tableOfContents>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Jerome Kroll ]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[New York : Routledge]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2005]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Bernard Bachrach]]></dcterms:contributor>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/items/show/1761">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The voice of the eagle: the heart of Celtic Christianity : John Scotus Eriugena&#039;s Homily on the prologue to the Gospel of St. John]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Johannes Scotus Erigena]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Great Barrington, MA : Lindisfarne Books]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1990]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[translated with introductions and reflections by Christopher Bamford]]></dcterms:contributor>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/items/show/1494">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[ Periphyseon (De divisione naturae)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Johannis Scotti Eriugenae]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Dublin : Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1999]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Edited by I.P. Sheldon-Williams, with the collaboration of Ludwig Bieler]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[Vol. VII]]></dcterms:format>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/items/show/1495">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Periphyseon (De divisione naturae)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Johannis Scotti Eriugenae]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Dublin : Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1995]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Edited by Edouard A. Jeauneau with the assistance of Mark A. Zier; English translation by John J. O&#039;Meara and I.P. Sheldon-Williams ]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[ Vol. XIII]]></dcterms:format>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Christian life]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&quot;The study of Protestant spirituality in the early modern period has generally focused on Puritans and Pietists. The tradition of the Slavic Reformation that culminated with John Amos Comenius (1592-1670) has been largely ignored. This volume seeks to redress this imbalance by introducing Comenius&#039;s neglected masterpiece, The Labyrinth of the World, to a broader audience.&quot; &quot;Though better known as the father of modern education, Comenius was a pastor and spiritual leader of the Bohemian Brethren (Unitas Fratrum), a Czech Protestant group inspired by the Hussite movement of the fifteenth century. The Labyrinth, an allegory of the spiritual journey in the style of Bunyan&#039;s Pilgrim&#039;s Progress, represents the culmination of his literary accomplishments. The work was written against the backdrop of the calamitous Thirty Years&#039; War and Comenius&#039;s profound personal sufferings. His satirical castigation of the world&#039;s false ambitions and values is paralleled by a deep yearning for understanding and experience of life with God.&quot; &quot;The work comprises two parts. The first introduces a pilgrim in search of a profession. Escorted by a series of guides who lead him through the maze of life&#039;s occupations, he visits tradesmen, scholars, clergy, rulers and various other classes of society. Disillusioned by the petty rivalries and deception that mark every vocation he explores, the pilgrim ultimately despairs of the vanity and emptiness of human existence. In the second part of the text the pilgrim turns inward, where he finds &quot;the paradise of the heart.&quot; After encountering Christ, he is led on a spiritual journey among those who have found the true meaning of life in relationship with God.&quot;--Jacket.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[John Comenius]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[New York : Paulist Press]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[translated and introduced by Howard Louthan and Andrea Sterk ; preface by Jan Milič Lochman]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:relation><![CDATA[Series: Classics of Western spirituality.]]></dcterms:relation>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/items/show/2371">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Path of the Eternal Wisdom: A Mystical Commentary on the Way of the Cross]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Stations of the Cross<br />
]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[John Cordelier (Evelyn Underhill)]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[London : John M. Watkins<br />
]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1948]]></dcterms:date>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/items/show/1456">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Eriugena]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A study of the life and work of the 9th-century Irish scholar Johannes Scottus Eriugena. It includes an extended summary of his most important work, &#039;Periphyseon&#039;, a remarkable attempt at a synthesis between the Bible and Neoplatonist philosophy.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:tableOfContents><![CDATA[1. Eriugena, Ireland, and Francia -- 2. The teacher -- 3. The &#039;controversialist&#039; -- 4. The translator -- 5. Summary of the Periphyseon: Books 1 and II -- 6. Summary of the Periphyseon: Book III -- 7. Summary of the Periphyseon: Book IV -- 8. Summary of the Periphyseon: Book V -- 9. The exegete -- 10. The poet -- 11. Eriugena&#039;s immediate influence.]]></dcterms:tableOfContents>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[John J. O&#039;Meara ]]></dcterms:creator>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/items/show/1118">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Riding with the lion: in search of mystical Christianity]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[EREVNA (Organization)]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Kyriacos C. Markides]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[New York : Viking Arkana]]></dcterms:publisher>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/items/show/704">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Doctor Illuminatus: A Ramon Llull Reader]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Philosophy -- Early works to 1800<br />
Theology -- Early works to 1800<br />
Apologetics -- Early works to 1800<br />
Mysticism -- Early works to 1800]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:tableOfContents><![CDATA[The book of the gentile and the three wise men -- The book of the lover and the beloved -- The book of the beasts -- Ars brevis.]]></dcterms:tableOfContents>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Llull Ramon]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[&quot;This reader is an abridged version of the two-volume Selected works of Ramón Llull published by Princeton University Press in 1985&quot;--Preface.]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[edited and translated by Anthony Bonner, with a new translation of The book of the lover and the beloved by Eve Bonner]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:relation><![CDATA[Series: Mythos (Princeton, N.J.)]]></dcterms:relation>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[ The mystical sense of the Sacred Scriptures with explications and reflections regarding the interior life]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Madame Guion]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Translated by Thomas Watson Duncan]]></dcterms:contributor>
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