10.25710/JTTZ-X514
Thompson, Carly Florine
Carly Florine
Thompson
Becoming the mouthpiece of God: female Christian mystics from the twelfth-to the eighteenth-century
Western Washington University
2010
Masters Thesis
<p>The purpose of this work is to look specifically at the writings of ten female mystics from the late medieval and early modern period and examine the intentional use of rhetoric by female mystics to procure the agency to address concerns about religion and society.</p>