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WORDING THE SILENCE: INITIATORY READING OF MYSTICAL TEXTS of clarity where the reader can be prepared for a state of consciousness in which she can open herself up for the touch of the secret Word of God. It is as if in the long letters written in this modus (Letter 22 and 28), and a series of paragraphs in other letters, Hadewijch had said everything that she as magistra could say or ‘teach’ about the state a mystic can strive or hope for. By reading and rereading the texts she has in her possession, the disciple and would-be magistra may be able to undergo the words that have welled up in one who has already been touched by the Word and has dwelled in the unfathomable space of clarity. Reading can then be an intimate, always accessible ritual of initiation led by the words of the powerful mystic that Hadewijch was. BIBLIOGRAPHY Primary Sources Corpus Christianorm, series Latina DARÓCZI Anikó and MoMMAERS, Paul, Hadewijch. The Complete Letters. Peeters, Leuven. In press. MIERLO, Jozef van Hadewijch. Brieven. Tekst en commentaar. Brussel, Gent, Leuven, 1947. VERDAM, Jacob: Midelnederlandsch Woordenboek, ‘s-Gravenhaege, Nijhoff, 1911. Secondary Sources CARRUTHERS, Mary, The Book of Memory. A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994. DARÓCZI, Anikó, Groet gheruchte van dien wondere. Spreken, zwijgen en zingen bij Hadewijch. Peeters, Leuven, 2007. FRAETERS, Veerle, Prelude: Hadewijch of Brabant and the Beguine Movement. In: Elizabeth Andersen, Henrike Lahnmann and Anne Simon (ed.): A Companion to Mysticism and Devotion in Northern Germany in the Late Middle Ages, Brill, Leiden, 2014, 32-40 and Textual Appendix, 181-188. GEHL, Paul: Competens silentium: Varieties of Monastic Silence in the Medieval West. In: Viator 8 (1987), 125-160. Gysın, Hans Peter, Studien zur Vokabulaer der Musiktheorie im Mittelalter. Eine linguistische Analyse. Basel, 1959. ILLICH, Ivan: Lectio Divina, In: Ursula Schaeffer (ed.), Schriftlichkeit im frühen Mittelalter. Guter Narr Verlag, Tübingen, 1993, 19-35. + 137 ¢ Daréczi-Sepsi-Vassänyi_Initiation_155x240.indb 137 6 2020. 06.15. 11:04:17
