3/14/2023 0 Comments Hildegard of bingen scivias pdfThis association carried over from antiquity and found fertile ground in the minds of the church fathers who villainized Eve’s role in the fall. Because of rampant medieval misogyny, female claims to authorship were especially suspect, as women were often associated with evil. Their stake in authorship is thus doubled, and for female medieval mystics, text production proved to be an especially ambivalent endeavor. Mystics, however, not only imitate the creative power of God, but also claim to deliver His messages. In the Christian Middle Ages, medieval text creation hinged on authority and authorization, as an imitation of the creative power of God, the Master Author and the Logos (Word) itself, and thus has religious consequences for an aspiring author. When a mystic relates a mystical experience, she inevitably creates a text and becomes an author. Even though medieval women mystics have enjoyed increased attention in recent scholarly discussion, a topic that still has not been tackled is the possible difference between seeing a vision and hearing a voice during a mystical experience and the ramifications of this difference in the context of medieval text production and in the status of mystics as authors.
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