"I Am But Lowly": Humility in the Hagiographies of Yeshé Tsogyal and Mechthild of Magdeburg.
Fifteen years ago, theologian Michelle Voss provided us with a detailed framework for understanding humility in the life and writings of the thirteenth-century German beguine, Mechthild of Magdeburg. This framework identified nine functions of the virtue, which Voss then organized into three triads:...
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University of Hawai'i
2025
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