Hadewijch of Antwerp | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 34 pages of analysis & critique of Hadewijch of Antwerp.

Hadewijch of Antwerp | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 34 pages of analysis & critique of Hadewijch of Antwerp.
This section contains 8,176 words
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SOURCE: Petroff, Elizabeth Alvilda. “Gender, Knowledge, and Power in Hadewijch's Strophische Gedichten.” In Body and Soul: Essays on Medieval Women and Mysticism, pp. 182-203. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

In the following essay, Petroff studies Hadewijch's representation of desire and gender reconciled through love in her Strofische Gedichten.

Hadewijch's Strophische Gedichten1 is a collection of poems on the theme of Minne, or Lady Love. In these sophisticated and confident lyrics, the great Dutch mystic and poet re-creates some of the themes, images, and metrical forms of the Provençal love lyric to explore the experience of Minne. She is a very great poet:

[T]he gift for poetry she displays in the Poems in Stanzas can only be termed lyrical genius. … Her poems themselves are proof that she had mastered the troubadours' art. It has been said that just as Bernard of Clairvaux used the Song of Songs to...

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