Essays about: "Skärselden"

Found 2 essays containing the word Skärselden.

  1. 1. Seeing and Sinners : Spatial Stratification and the Medieval Hagioscopes of Gotland

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Karl Pettersson; [2018]
    Keywords : Hagioscope; Peter of Limoges; Visuality; Perspectiva; Anchorite; Recluse; Gotland; Purgatory; Leprosy; Penance; Sword Brethren; Teutonic Order; Pilgrims; Hagioskop; Peter Limoges; Visualitet; Perspectiva; Anakoret; Reclus; Gotland; Skärselden; Spetälska; Botgöring; Svärdsbrödraorden. Tyska Orden; Pilgrim;

    Abstract : The hagioscope—a small tunnel or opening usually set at eye-level in a church wall—is a complex and multifaceted device that appears in Europe during the late medieval period. Despite an increased interest in the  history of the senses, the hagioscope has been overlooked until now. READ MORE

  3. 2. A Colombian Nun and the Love of God and Neighbour : The Spiritual Path of María de Jesús (1690s-1776)

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Missionsvetenskap

    Author : Helwi Margarita Cadavid Yani; [2016]
    Keywords : love; God; neighbor; charity; affective; Discalced Carmelites; Barefoot Carmelites; spirituality; convent; nun; white-veiled; Catholic; church; mission; mysticism; mystic; Eucharist; Communion; heart; blood; imagery; metaphor; Purgatory; salvation; soul; sacrament; vision; visions; ineffable; union; rhetoric; rhetoric of femininity; humility; spiritual journal; writings; path; María de Jesús; Teresa of Avila; Teresian presence; Colonial Spanish America; Colombia; New Granada.; kärlek; Gud; nästan; Caritas; affektivt språk; Oskodda karmeliter; Barfota karmeliter; andlighet; andlig; spiritualitet; spirituell; väg; kloster; nunna; katolsk; kyrka; mission; mystik; eukaristi; kommunion; hjärta; blod; bildspråk; metafor; Skärselden; Purgatorium; själ; sakrament; vision; visioner; obeskrivlig; förening; retorik; ödmjukhet; andlig dagbok; skrifter; María de Jesús; Teresa av Avila; kolonial; Amerika; Nya Granada.;

    Abstract : María de Jesús (1690s-1776) was a white-veiled Discalced Carmelite nun of the San José convent in Santa Fe de Bogotá, founded in 1606. She professed in the year 1714, and her spiritual journal was printed in a chronicle about the convent in the 1940s. READ MORE