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Hadewijch of Antwerp

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Poems by Hadewijch of Antwerp
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Hadewijch of Antwerp -- sometimes called Hadewijch of Brabant, the name of the Dutch province -- lived in the 13th century in what is now Belgium. She is rightly called one of the greatest names in medieval Flemish and Dutch literature.

Little can be said for certain about the life of Hadewijch. She was probably the head of a Beguine community. The Beguines were a sect of devout women in Belgium, Holland, Germany and France. Beguines did not take vows, but they gathered together to live in simplicity and service. Many Beguines were mystics and poets of the highest order.

 

Poems by Hadewijch of Antwerp

  All things
  Love Has Seven Names
  Love has subjugated me:
  Love's constancy
  The madness of love
  Tighten
  You who want

Recommended Books

Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies throughout the Ages, by Ursula King
Hadewijch: The Complete Works (Classics of Western Spirituality) , by Mother Columbo Hart
Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete, by Bernard Mcginn
The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry, Edited by Aliki Barnstone
Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield

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