A companion to mysticism and devotion in northern Germany in the late middle ages /

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Imprint:	Leidne ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Description:	xxi, 429 p. : 11 ill. (partly col.), 3 maps ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, 1871-6377 ; VOLUME 44 Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 44.
Subject:	Mysticism -- Germany -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500. Mysticism -- Middle Ages. Germany -- Church history -- 843-1517. Germany -- Religious life and customs -- Middle Ages, 843-1517. Germany. Church history. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9971385

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Other authors / contributors:	Andersen, Elizabeth (Elizabeth A.), editor of compilation.
ISBN:	9789004257931 (hardback : alk. paper) 9004257934 (hardback : alk. paper) 9789004258457 (e-books)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	The volume explores the hitherto uncharted late medieval religious landscape of Northern Germany, from 13th-century Helfta to the 15th-century Lüneburg convents. The mystical and devotional writing of Northern Germany is contextualised through chapters on the Netherlands, Scandinavia and East Prussia. The seminal influence of the liturgy on these texts and their transmission is revealed in the creative interplay of Latin and Low German. Through the individual chapters and their appendices, which also contain translations into English, the reader can access a wealth of texts produced by communities of religious and lay women who write learnedly in Latin and fervently in Low German. Together, the chapters and appendices reveal a fascinating regional "mystical culture" which also reverberated across Northern Europe.

Table of Contents:

Preface
List of Contributors
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
List of Textual Appendices to the Chapters
1. Introduction: Mysticism and Devotion in Northern Germany
2. Liturgy and Reform: Northern German Convents in the Late Middle Ages
Part 1. Beginnings and Formations. Mystical Culture and the Helfta Circle
3. Hadewijch of Brabant and the Beguine Movement
4. Transmission and Impact: Mechthild of Magdeburg's Das fließende Licht der Gottheit
5. Text Production and Authorship: Gertrude of Helfta's Legatus divinae pietatis
6. Latin and the Vernacular: Mechthild of Magdeburg-Mechthild of Hackeborn-Gertrude of Helfta
Part 2. Transmission, Transformation and Exchange. Devotional Culture and the Lüneburg Convents
7. Prelude: Northern Circulation of Fourteenth-Century Mystical Texts
8. An Urban Housewife as a Saint for Prussia: Dorothea of Montau and Johannes Marienwerder
9. Birgitta of Sweden in Northern Germany: Translation, Transmission and Reception
10. The Influence of the Devotio Moderna in Northern Germany
11. Religious Song and Devotional Culture in Northern Germany
12. Liturgy and Performance in Northern Germany: Two Easter Plays from Wienhausen
13. Bilingual Devotion in Northern Germany: Prayer Books from the Lüneburg Convents
14. Intellectual Horizons: Letters from a Northern German Convent
Illustrations
Bibliography
Glossary
Index

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