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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Andersen, Elizabeth (Elizabeth A.) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Brill, 2013.
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.