Neville publishes article on medieval mystic Mechthild of Magdeburg

Assistant Professor David Neville ofthe Department of Foreign Language at Elon University has publishedan article, “The Bodies of the Bride: The Language ofIncarnation, Transcendence, and Time in the Poetic Theology ofMechthild of Magdeburg,” to appear in the forthcoming issue ofMysticsQuarterly: TheAcademic Journal Of Medieval Western-European Mysticism.Neville articulatesMechthild’s mystical theology of the body by focusing on her use ofbridal imagery and seeing it as a literary-symbolic expansion ofAuerbach’s understanding of the typological. Specifically, heexamines Mechthild’s descriptions of Eve and Mary, viewing them as figural or quasi- figural rubrics, under which hediscusses the complexes of wholeness and fragmentationthat appear in Mechthild and inform her perception of corporeality.