Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book : Gender and the Making of Textual Authority /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Poor, Sara S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mechthild, > of Magdeburg, > ca. 1212-ca. 1282. > Fliessende Licht der Gottheit.
Mechthild, > of Magdeburg, > approximately 1212-approximately 1282. > Fliessende Licht der Gottheit.
Fliessende Licht der Gottheit (Mechthild, of Magdeburg)
Women mystics.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Femmes mystiques > Biographies.
Women mystics > Biography.
Biographies.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The Problem of Mechthild's Authorship
  • 1. Choosing the Vernacular: The Politics of Language and the Art of Devotion
  • 2. Visions of Authorship: Cloaking the Body in Text
  • 3. Transmission Lessons: Gender, Audience, and the Mystical Handbook
  • 4. Productive Consumption: Women Readers and the Production of Late Medieval Devotional Anthologies
  • 5. Historicizing Canonicity: Tradition and the Invisible Talent of Mechthild of Magdeburg
  • Appendix A: Manuscript Transmission of Das flieBencle Licht cler Gottheit
  • Appendix B: Würzburg Franziskanerkloster Hs. I IIO (paper)
  • Appendix C: Budapest, Országos Szechenyi Könyvtár Cod. Germ. 38 (paper)
  • Appendix D Colmar, Bibliotheque de la Ville, Ms. 2137 (paper)
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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