Product Description

This book is particularly relevant to the market because it looks at the issues that directly affect most middle-aged women - empty nest, career changes, relationships, as well as physical and spiritual questions.Using famous spiritual women from the middle ages, it looks at what they said and how this relates to middle age. For example, Julian of Norwich (who despite the name, was a women!) refers to Christ as "our kind mother, our gracious mother" and has a vision of a Christ who allows us to make mistakes. Nobody will have reached middle age without making the odd error or two hundred, so this ideal of Jesus is important.Other women featured are Hildegard of Bingen, Mechthild of Magdeburg or Claire of Assisi. All have something to offer the middle-aged women of today.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #549146 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 216 pages

About the Author
Lisa Hamilton, an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Connecticut, is a religion reporter/producer for CBS News in NY. She is a former producer for Public Television's Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. She has also served as television/video producer for Trinity Wall Street.

Customer Reviews

Insightful and meaningful
This book is an inspiration for women of all ages and in particular those approaching or in middle age. Ms. Hamilton does a delightful job of introducing the reader to these wonderfully wise Medieval women. The author shared the wisdom from these women in such a way that one can identify with them and be inspired by their courage, faith, and ability to persevere. There is a wonderful blend of personal and historical and I am spiritually enriched from having read this book. I have ordered more as gifts for friends and feel they too will thoroughly enjoy and benefit from the wisdom in this book.

Delightful, Inspirational
Wisdom from the Middle Ages for Middle-aged Women: This book is great (and I'm well past middle age). The stories and lessons to be learned from these mystics, interspersed with experiences and challenges faced by the author make it difficult to put down. I plan to recommend and give copies to several friends. I highly recommend this lovely book.