On Becoming God: Late Medieval Mysticism and the Modern Western Self

Introduction

The introduction sets out the methodological shifts necessary for a twenty-first-century reader to begin making sense of the central problem with which the book is concerned, namely what it might mean for a woman religious in a fourteenth-century anonymous text to declare that she has "become God." The shifts include fundamental changes in the way questions of personal identity, sexual difference and religious traditions are conceptualized.