How was mystical literature significant ?
Correct answer: D. Mystical literature provided a place for women to write romantic and religious literature.
- A. Mystical literature suggested the continued link between paganism and Christianity.
- B. Mystical literature prohibited women from writing in the voice of God.
- C. Mystical literature ended the trend of poems in which God was cast as a lover.
- D. Mystical literature provided a place for women to write romantic and religious literature.
Explanation
Mystical writing enabled women such as Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe to express religious experience through intimate, often loving language addressed to God. It therefore created space for women’s religious authorship rather than prohibiting it.
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