The Voices of Mechthild of Magdeburg - Softcover

Andersen, Elizabeth A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820453005 ISBN 13: 9780820453002

Verlag: Peter Lang AG, 2000

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Críticas:

« ...as an introduction to Mechthild's work for the English-speaking academic world, this monograph will undoubtedly serve its purpose, diffusing more widely a very important text of German Middle Ages. This is equally reflected in the very extensive peripheral material, ranging from footnotes and an index to a list of primary and secondary sources including translations and modern editions of the primary works discussed.

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Mechthild of Magdeburg's singular book Das Flieende Licht der Gottheit ('The Flowing Light of the Godhead') must be accounted one of the most significant texts in German that we have from the thirteenth century. As a piece of first-rate imaginative writing in the vernacular it is a highly rewarding text for those interested in medieval literature and women's writing. It is also of considerable interest to historians and theologians as a document of female spirtuality. This introduction to Mechthild's extraordinary account of her revelations and of her relationship with God and with her contemporaries makes Mechthild's book more accessible to the English speaker. It takes as its central focus the multi-voiced nature of Mechthild's writings, suggesting ways of reading her work through an analysis of key voices in the text: (i) the social-historical voice of Mechthild as beguine and nun (ii) the authorial voice (iii) the voice of the mystic and prophet with particular reference to the influence of the Psalter and the Song of Songs (iv) the temporal voice of the visionary at the intersection of Mechthild's personal story with the master story of Christian salvation.

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• Verlag: Peter Lang AG
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0820453005
• ISBN 13: 9780820453002
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 255