The Trinitarian and Christological Minnemystik of the Flemish beguine Hadewijch of Antwerp (fl. 1240)
Johann Beükes
This article provides an original reappraisal of the notion Minnemystik in work 13th-century Flemish beguine Hadewijch Antwerp (fl. 1240), with specific reference to its Trinitarian and Christological orientations. After introduction nature origins Hadewijch’s work, relating discovery four extant manuscripts (MS.A [2879–2880], MS.B [2877–2878], BS.C incomplete MS.D [385 II]) Belgium 1838, followed by elucidation experience-driven epistemology Victorians Richard St Victor (d. 1173) Hugo (1079–1141) as her key early scholastic influences, is distinguished from Wesenmystik, encountered mystical French contemporary counterpart, Marguerite Porete (1250–1310). From this discursive basis, reassessed represented pertinently orientation, therefore a theological (and not merely enticing ‘mystical-sexual’) presentation 13th century.
Theological Studies/Teologiese Studies