Format:
XVI, 333 S. :
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Ill.
ISBN:
0-8122-3802-8
Series Statement:
The Middle Ages series
Content:
"Sometime around 1230, a young woman left her family and traveled to the German city of Magdeburg to devote herself to worship and religious contemplation. Rather than living in a community of holy women, she chose isolation, claiming that this life would bring her closer to God. Even in her lifetime, Mechthild of Magdeburg gained some renown for her extraordinary book of mystical revelations, The Flowing Light of the Godhead, the first such work in the German vernacular. Yet her writing dropped into obscurity after her death, many assume because of her gender." "In Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book, Sara S. Poor seeks to explain this fate by considering Mechthild's own view of female authorship, the significance of her choice to write in the vernacular, and the continued, if submerged, presence of her writings in a variety of contexts from the thirteenth through the nineteenth century. Rather than explaining Mechthild's absence from literary canons, Poor's close examination of medieval and early modern religious literature and of contemporary scholarly writing reveals her subject's shifting importance in a number of differently defined traditions, high and low, Latin and vernacular, male- and female-centered." "Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book offers new insights into medieval vernacular mysticism, late medieval women's roles in the production of culture, and the construction of modern literary traditions."--BOOK JACKET.
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
Keywords:
von Magdeburg 1210-1282 Das fließende Licht der Gottheit Mechthild
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Autorschaft
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von Magdeburg 1210-1282 Das fließende Licht der Gottheit Mechthild
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Textkritik
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Biografie
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Biografie
URL:
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=012852946&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
URL:
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=012852946&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
Author information:
Poor, Sara S. 1963-
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