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Title A companion to mysticism and devotion in northern Germany in the late middle ages / edited by Elizabeth Andersen, Henrike Lahnemann, and Anne Simon
Published Boston : Brill, 2013

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Series Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, 1871-6377 ; VOLUME 44
Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 44.
Contents 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
Summary 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 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Mysticism -- Germany -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- General.
Mysticism -- Middle Ages.
Mystiek.
Devotie.
Moderne Devotie.
SUBJECT Germany -- Church history -- 843-1517. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054475
Germany -- Religious life and customs -- Middle Ages, 843-1517. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054652
Subject Germany.
Noord-Duitsland.
Bourgondische Nederlanden.
Allemagne.
Genre/Form Church history.
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Andersen, Elizabeth (Elizabeth A.), editor.
ISBN 9789004258457
9004258450
1306188997
9781306188999