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Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book : Gender and the Making of Textual Authority /
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...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Preface -- |t Introduction: The Problem of Mechthild's Authorship -- |t 1. Choosing the Vernacular: The Politics of Language and the Art of Devotion -- |t 2. Visions of Authorship: Cloaking the Body in Text -- |t 3. Transmission Lessons: Gender, Audience, and the Mystical Handbook -- |t 4. Productive Consumption: Women Readers and the Production of Late Medieval Devotional Anthologies -- |t 5. Historicizing Canonicity: Tradition and the Invisible Talent of Mechthild of Magdeburg -- |t Appendix A: Manuscript Transmission of Das flieBencle Licht cler Gottheit -- |t Appendix B: Würzburg Franziskanerkloster Hs. I IIO (paper) -- |t Appendix C: Budapest, Országos Szechenyi Könyvtár Cod. Germ. 38 (paper) -- |t Appendix D Colmar, Bibliotheque de la Ville, Ms. 2137 (paper) -- |t Notes -- |t Bibliography -- |t Index -- |t Acknowledgments. |
| 520 | |a 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 writings 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. While gender is often a significant factor in this history, Poor demonstrates that it is rarely the only one. Her book thus corrects late twentieth-century arguments about women writers and canon reform that often rest on inadequate notions of exclusion. 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. | ||
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