#Hadewijch
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t8erboi.bsky.social
Shockingly common theme in medieval devotional literature
FRAGMENTATION AND REDEMPTION Hadewijch, writing probably in the early to mid-1220s, spoke of a vision at mass in which Christ came from the altar "in the form and clothing of a man...." Then he gave himself to me in the shape of the sacrament, in its out-ward form, as the custom is; and then he gave me to drink from the chalice.... After that he came himself to me, took me entirely in his arms, and pressed me to him; and all my members felt his in full felicity, in accordance with the desire of my heart and my human-ity. So I was outwardly satisfied and fully transported. And then, for a short while, I had the strength to bear this; but soon, after a short time, I lost that manly beauty outwardly in the sight of his form. I saw him completely come to nought and so fade and all at once dis-solve that I could no longer recognize or perceive him outside me, and I could no longer distinguish him within me. Then it was to me as if we were one without difference.2 Throughout her poems - the first great literature in the Flemish language - runs the theme of love as eating and being eaten. 3 Cortona Half a century later, at the other end of Europe, Margaret of a peasant woman who had lived nine years with a lover to whom she bore a son and had then spent three long years in penance before being accepted as a Franciscan tertiary - felt a similar craving for the eucharist. In one of her many visions, Christ appeared on the cross saying that, if he could cry in heaven, he would cry that day over the corruption of preachers and prel-ates. "If you have perfect love," he said to Margaret, "you will not just cling to the breasts of my consolation but will weep with my pains." And Christ gave Margaret the privilege of daily com-munion, although her own anxiety frequently kept her from availing herself of the opportunity.4 At about the same time, in yet another part of Europe, the...
September 25, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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📖 Art guide for Bruges by Fernand. Bonneure
https://isbn.nu/9789052400334
Cover of Art guide for Bruges, by Fernand. Bonneure, Hadewijch, 1989.
September 22, 2026 at 5:16 AM
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Recensie opera 'De materie' | Tussen de verafgoding van Hadewijch en de boogiewoogie van Mondriaan
Recensie opera 'De materie' | Tussen de verafgoding van Hadewijch en de boogiewoogie van Mondriaan
De Nederlandse componist Louis Andriessen schreef met 'De materie' een prikkelende filosofische opera. Makkelijk is die niet altijd. Maar dat hoeft schoonheid niet in de weg te staan, bewijst Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in een nieuwe productie.
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September 17, 2026 at 5:52 PM
news-flows-be-vlg.bsky.social
Recensie opera 'De materie' | Tussen de verafgoding van Hadewijch en de boogiewoogie van Mondriaan

De Nederlandse componist Louis Andriessen schreef met 'De materie' een prikkelende filosofische opera. Makkelijk is die niet altijd. Maar dat hoeft schoonheid niet in de weg te staan, bewijst...
Recensie opera 'De materie' | Tussen de verafgoding van Hadewijch en de boogiewoogie van Mondriaan
De Nederlandse componist Louis Andriessen schreef met 'De materie' een prikkelende filosofische opera. Makkelijk is die niet altijd. Maar dat hoeft schoonheid niet in de weg te staan, bewijst Opera Ba...
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September 17, 2026 at 5:35 PM
aroeschmarsh.bsky.social
‘Seek the oneness within’
- Hadewijch of Antwerp
#PoetryHelps
September 12, 2026 at 7:29 PM
fonolog.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Een aflevering over Hadewijch in mijn serie Neerlandistiek voor kinderen van 10-14 jaar.

https://neerlandistiek.nl/2026/09/liefdesliedjes-over-god/
September 11, 2026 at 11:48 AM
fonolog.bsky.social
Een aflevering over Hadewijch in mijn serie Neerlandistiek voor kinderen van 10-14 jaar.

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Liefdesliedjes over God
Een nieuwe aflevering in de serie Neerlandistiek voor kinderen van 10-14 jaar.
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September 11, 2026 at 11:47 AM
tmariis.bsky.social
The queen in the thousand-eye-dress is Queen Reason, and reason is itself an eye according to Hadewijch:

"This power of sight has two eyes, love and reason. Reason cannot see God except in what he is not; love rests not except in what he is."
August 13, 2026 at 5:21 AM
tmariis.bsky.social
"I saw in the spirit a queen come in, clad in a gold dress; and her dress was all full of eyes; and all the eyes were completely transparent, like fiery flames, and nevertheless like crystal."

Hadewijch, Vision n° 9, tr. Columba Hart

🖼️ Natalya Nesterova, Entreaty
A person kneeling on the ground with both their hand raised as if pleading to the skies. Their whole body and dress (both uniformly white) are covered in eyes. The landscape in the background consists of barren mountains, with olive trees at their feet, giving the painting a biblical vibe.
August 13, 2026 at 5:13 AM
schwarzbegine.bsky.social
Holy Catherine of Siena, pray to God for us
Holy Julian of Norwich, pray to God for us
Holy Mechthild of Magdeburg, pray to God for us
Holy Hildegard of Bingen, pray to God for us
Holy Hadewijch of Brabant, pray to God for us
August 6, 2026 at 1:30 PM
jonmsweeney.bsky.social
The beguine Hadewijch of Antwerp taught the virtue of “noble unfaith.” The problem with faith for most people, she said, was how it dampened desire by answering every question and creating contentment.
July 26, 2026 at 11:39 AM
schwarzbegine.bsky.social
I have gone back to believing Luther's view of the Eucharist. Partially because i remembered St. Hadewijch of Brabant wrote the most important moment in her life was when Christ DESCENDED onto the altar

Also is means is
July 19, 2026 at 7:16 PM
maerlant.bsky.social
youtu.be/YH1hFEwvK2Y
Hadewijch
YouTube video by Maerlant
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July 17, 2026 at 6:48 AM
racheldeering.bsky.social
‘In the beginning Love satisfies us.
When Love first spoke to me of love –
How I laughed at her in return!
But then she made me like the hazel trees,
Which blossom early in the season of darkness,
And bear fruit slowly.’ ~
Hadewijch of Antwerp
#BookWormSat
The Hazel Tree (The Hazel Tree (colour litho)) Maurice Pillard Verneuil Illustration of aspects of the hazel tree
July 11, 2026 at 4:31 PM
leighgoodwin.bsky.social
You who want
knowledge,
seek the Oneness
within.

There you
will find
the clear mirror
already waiting.

☀️

#poem Hadewijch II Translation: Jane Hirshfield
#micropoem
#art Spiros Lioris

#resist
she stands alone in her small boat, so close.to shining water reflecting shining sky photograph
July 9, 2026 at 6:43 AM
ashpaley.bsky.social
I’ll be giving my paper ‘Mystical Anticipation and Neuroqueer Longing in the Works of Hadewijch of Brabant’ at #IMC #s324 on Monday at 16:30
Digital drawing of an hourglass with rainbow sand
July 3, 2026 at 10:32 PM
ashpaley.bsky.social
If you're at the #IMC next week, come to sessions #s224 and #s324 on Neurodivergent and Neuroqueer Temporalities. These sessions include papers on Egil's Saga, Gawain and the Green Knight, Hadewijch, and the Gesta Romanorum.

Hope to see you there!
July 2, 2026 at 10:06 PM
considermycat.bsky.social
This quiz was a bit (a lot) more abstruse than the Early Modern Europe quiz, but I feel it got me www.theodramatist.com/which-mediev...
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite 5th-6th c. • Syria (probable) APOPHATIC MYSTICAL • DIONYSIAN You think the best thing said about God is finally what cannot be said. The Areopagite—writing under a pseudonym borrowed from Acts-gave the Christian tradition its grammar of negation, the via negativa, the dark cloud beyond all names. You'd rather say less truly than more falsely. The next four closest: Meister Eckhart, Hadewijch, Marguerite Porete, John Scotus Eriugena ,
June 10, 2026 at 7:27 AM
jbwaagmeester.bsky.social
Een paar weken geleden was ik te gast in de podcast
@middeleeuwen.bsky.social. De aflevering staat nu online en gaat over vroegmiddeleeuwse priesters en de lokale kerk en is overal te beluisteren via open.spotify.com/show/1ffecyd... of linktr.ee/middeleeuwen.
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Podcast · Epping Productions · Een podcast over de Middeleeuwen. Van Hadewijch tot Clovis, vikingen tot kloosterleven… en heel veel meer!Iedere week praten wetenschappers ons een uurtje bij over hun o...
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June 8, 2026 at 3:14 PM
evelyneverheggen.bsky.social
Met als titel ‘Girlpower en minne-mystiek’ mocht ik de ‘preek’ verzorgen tijdens de Cornelia-vespers tgv de viering van de 334ste geboortedag van Cornelia Occo, stichteres van het Occo-hofje in Amsterdam 👸
Met liederen van Hildegard von Bingen en Hadewijch 🎶
#vrouwenviering 💒
June 6, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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Thanks to Dan Dittmer for designing this year's Metal Meltdown T-shirt!

Today's schedule of hosts:
Now-6am Matt the BridgeTroll & The Dark Mistress
6-11 Doof Lawyer
11-3 Prefect Mortificator
3-5 Hadewijch
5-midnight The Metal Evangelist

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May 24, 2026 at 6:04 AM
I’m closest to Hadewijch (Beguine · Visions and Letters in Middle Dutch). My wider constellation: Hildegard of Bingen, Boethius, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Julian of Norwich
May 23, 2026 at 2:56 AM
marabarl.bsky.social
started infinite summer today; read some of hadewijch; sleeping very poorly lately; the usual fatigue again; feel a desperate longing, lately, about switching bodies
May 16, 2026 at 12:37 AM
fatherdivine.bsky.social
“Men try to dissuade me from everything Love bids me do. They don’t understand it, and I can’t explain it to them. I must live out what I am,” wrote Hadewijch, a thirteenth-century woman from Antwerp, Belgium.
The Beguines
The Beguines were a medieval renewal movement of women, who formed communities of worship and mutual economic support. From their ranks emerged mystics and visionaries such as Marguerite Porete, Mecht...
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May 14, 2026 at 6:10 PM