Poets of Divine Love: The Rhetoric of Franciscan Spiritual Poetry

✍ Scribed by Alessandro Vettori

Publisher: Fordham University Press
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 250
Series: (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies)
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ADVISO TO READER
INTRODUCTION
1 Theater of Nudity
2 Mysticism of Sexual Union
3 Harmony of the Cosmos
4 Origins of the Canon
5 Theology of Ravishment
6 Ecstasy of Agapic Love
7 Symphony of the Ineffable
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

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