A companion to mysticism and devotion in northern Germany in the late middle ages /
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 Pruss...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Brill,
2013.
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Colección: | Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ;
v. 44. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: mysticism and devotion in northern Germany / Elizabeth Andersen, Henrike Lähnemann, and Anne Simon
- Liturgy and reform: northern German convents in the late Middle Ages / Jürgen Bärsch
- Hadewijch of Brabant and the beguine movement / Veerle Fraeters
- Transmission and impact: Mechthild of Magdeburg's Das fliessende Licht der Gottheit / Sara S. Poor
- Text production and authorship: Gertrude of Helfta's Legatus divinae pietatis / Balázs J. Nemes
- Latin and the vernacular: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Mechthild of Hackeborn, Gertrude of Helfta / Ernst Hellgardt
- Prelude: northern circulation of fourteenth-century mystical texts / Geert Warnar
- An urban housewife as a saint for Prussia: Dorothea of Montau and Johannes Marienwerder / Almut Suerbaum
- Birgitta of Sweden in northern Germany: translation, transmission and reception / Elizabeth Andersen
- The influence of the Devotio moderna in northern Germany / Anne Bollmann
- Religious song and devotional culture in northern Germany / Ulrike Hascher-Burger
- Liturgy and performance in northern Germany: two Easter plays from Wienhausen / Tanja Mattern
- Bilingual devotion in northern Germany: prayer books from the Lüneburg convents / Henrike Lähnemann
- Intellectual horizons: letters from a northern German convent / Eva Schlotheuber.