A companion to mysticism and devotion in northern Germany in the late Middle Ages /
A companion to mysticism and devotion in northern Germany in the late Middle Ages /
Mysticism and devotion in northern Germany in the late Middle Ages.
edited by Elizabeth Andersen, Henrike L©Þhnemann and Anne Simon.
- Leiden : Brill, 2014.
- xxi, 429 p. : 11 ill. (5 col.), facsims. ; 25 cm.
- Brill's companions to the Christian tradition : a series of handbooks and reference works on the intellectual and religious life of Europe, 500-1800, 44. 1871-6377 ; .
- Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 44. .
Includes bibliography (p. [385]-415) and index.
mysticism and devotion in northern Germany / Liturgy and reform : northern German convents in the late Middle Ages / Beginnings and formations : mystical culture and the Helfta circle. Hadewijch of Brabant and the Beguine movement / Transmission and impact : Mechthild of Magdeburg's Das fliessende Licht der Gottheit / Text production and authorship : Gertrude of Helfta's Legatus divinae pietatis / Latin and the vernacular : Mechthild of Magdeburg, Mechthild of Hackeborn, Gertrude of Helfta / Transmission, transformation and exchange : devotional culture and the L©ơneburg convents. Prelude : northern circulation of fourteenth-century mystical texts / urban housewife as a saint for Prussia : Dorothea of Montau and Johannes Marienwerder / Birgitta of Sweden in northern Germany : translation, transmission and reception / influence of the Devotio moderna in northern Germany / Religious song and devotional culture in northern Germany / Liturgy and performance in northern Germany : two Easter plays from Wienhausen / Bilingual devotion in northern Germany : prayer books from the L©ơneburg convents / Intellectual horizons : letters from a northern German convent / Elizabeth Andersen, Henrike L©Þhnemann and Anne Simon -- J©ơrgen B©Þrsch -- Veerle Fraeters. Sara S. Poor. Bal©Łzs J. Nemes. Ernst Hellgardt -- Geert Warnar. Almut Suerbaum. Elizabeth Andersen. Anne Bollmann. Ulrike Hascher-Burger. Tanja Mattern. Henrike L©Þhnemann. Eva Schlotheuber. Introduction : pt. 1. pt. 2. An The
"The volume explores the hitherto uncharted late medieval religious landscape of Northern Germany, from 13th-century Helfta to the 15th-century L©ơneburg 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."--Back cover.
9789004257931 (hardback) 9789004258457 (ebook)
Mysticism--History--Germany--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Monastic and religious life of women--History--Germany--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Germany--Church history--843-1517.
Germany--Religious life and customs--Middle Ages, 843-1517.
248.2209430902
Includes bibliography (p. [385]-415) and index.
mysticism and devotion in northern Germany / Liturgy and reform : northern German convents in the late Middle Ages / Beginnings and formations : mystical culture and the Helfta circle. Hadewijch of Brabant and the Beguine movement / Transmission and impact : Mechthild of Magdeburg's Das fliessende Licht der Gottheit / Text production and authorship : Gertrude of Helfta's Legatus divinae pietatis / Latin and the vernacular : Mechthild of Magdeburg, Mechthild of Hackeborn, Gertrude of Helfta / Transmission, transformation and exchange : devotional culture and the L©ơneburg convents. Prelude : northern circulation of fourteenth-century mystical texts / urban housewife as a saint for Prussia : Dorothea of Montau and Johannes Marienwerder / Birgitta of Sweden in northern Germany : translation, transmission and reception / influence of the Devotio moderna in northern Germany / Religious song and devotional culture in northern Germany / Liturgy and performance in northern Germany : two Easter plays from Wienhausen / Bilingual devotion in northern Germany : prayer books from the L©ơneburg convents / Intellectual horizons : letters from a northern German convent / Elizabeth Andersen, Henrike L©Þhnemann and Anne Simon -- J©ơrgen B©Þrsch -- Veerle Fraeters. Sara S. Poor. Bal©Łzs J. Nemes. Ernst Hellgardt -- Geert Warnar. Almut Suerbaum. Elizabeth Andersen. Anne Bollmann. Ulrike Hascher-Burger. Tanja Mattern. Henrike L©Þhnemann. Eva Schlotheuber. Introduction : pt. 1. pt. 2. An The
"The volume explores the hitherto uncharted late medieval religious landscape of Northern Germany, from 13th-century Helfta to the 15th-century L©ơneburg 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."--Back cover.
9789004257931 (hardback) 9789004258457 (ebook)
Mysticism--History--Germany--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Monastic and religious life of women--History--Germany--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Germany--Church history--843-1517.
Germany--Religious life and customs--Middle Ages, 843-1517.
248.2209430902