TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andersen,Elizabeth
AU  - L©Þhnemann,Henrike
AU  - Simon,Anne
TI  - A companion to mysticism and devotion in northern Germany in the late Middle Ages
T2  - Brill's companions to the Christian tradition : a series of handbooks and reference works on the intellectual and religious life of Europe, 500-1800,
SN  - 9789004257931 (hardback)
U1  - 248.2209430902 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Mysticism
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - Middle Ages, 600-1500
KW  - Monastic and religious life of women
KW  - Church history
KW  - 843-1517
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Middle Ages, 843-1517
N1  - Includes bibliography (p. [385]-415) and index; Introduction; mysticism and devotion in northern Germany; Elizabeth Andersen, Henrike L©Þhnemann and Anne Simon --; Liturgy and reform : northern German convents in the late Middle Ages; J©ơrgen B©Þrsch --; pt. 1; Beginnings and formations : mystical culture and the Helfta circle; 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; Bal©Łzs J. Nemes.; Latin and the vernacular : Mechthild of Magdeburg, Mechthild of Hackeborn, Gertrude of Helfta; Ernst Hellgardt --; pt. 2; Transmission, transformation and exchange : devotional culture and the L©ơneburg convents; 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 L©ơneburg convents; Henrike L©Þhnemann.; Intellectual horizons : letters from a northern German convent; Eva Schlotheuber
N2  - "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
ER  -