The Mystical Presence of Christ: The Exceptional and the Ordinary in Late Medieval Religion

Explores The Connections Between Exceptional Experience Of Christ's Presence And Ordinary Christocentric Devotion And Argues That For Both Exceptional And Ordinary Piety It Was Crucially Important That Christ Be Seen As Divine. Subjects Examined In The Book Include German Nuns Of Helfta And Later Dominicans, Margery Kempe, Angela Of Foligno, Catherine Of Siena, And Dorothea Of Montau-- Provided By Publisher.