Medieval female mysticism: a categorization essay

Abstract

In this article we intend to show a bit of what we call medieval female mysticism. Moreover, we want to think about it a bit to present it as a set of ideas that, although not realized as a single whole or as a single school of thought, can be categorized as a whole by their similarities that must be questioned. In this way, we call attention to say that an investigation about the medieval female mysticism, as many scholars indicate, must take into account the need for pay attention to the gender perspective of the existing documents, at last, it is from them that the medieval mystics women speak. Thus, the article is divided into three parts: 1. an approach to the relationship between mysticism and philosophy; 2. a presentation of mysticism in the Middle Ages; and 3. medieval female mysticism. For this paper, we use authors who study mysticism, especially the medieval, as Certeau (2015), Ruh (2002), McGinn (2017), Bingemer (2010), Cirlot and Gari (1999) and Troch (2013).