 previous article in this issue | next article in this issue  |
Preview first page |
Document Details : Title: Gedoopt in Gods diepte Subtitle: Liturgie en mystiek in het zesde visioen van Hadewijch Author(s): FRAETERS, Veerle Journal: Ons Geestelijk Erf Volume: 88 Issue: 2-4 Date: 2017 Pages: 103-123 DOI: 10.2143/OGE.88.2.3256927 Abstract : The visions of late medieval charismatic women are, in general, strongly marked by the liturgy. The narratives are dated to a specific liturgical day and presented as inner meditations on the text and theme of that day. Although Hadewijch’s visions, in line with the model, open with references to the liturgical feasts at which the visionary ecstasy purportedly occurred, the visionary narratives hardly bear any noticeable reference to the feasts in question. In this article, I challenge the received opinion that the contents and the imagery of Hadewijch’s visions barely relate to the liturgy through an exemplary intertextual analysis of Vision 6. By widening the temporal scope so as to include not just the date but rather the octave, while also using a broad definition of intertextuality that encompasses allusion and visual reference as well as explicit quotation, the analysis reveals that the narrative of Vision 6 is infused with liturgical intertext to such an extent that the text can be read as an experiential hermeneutics of the feast of Epiphany. Her reading of Epiphany expresses a radical mysticism which states that the human person, like Christ, is simultaneously human and divine. |
|
