A01=Rebecca L.R. Garber
Adelheid Langmann
Author_Rebecca L.R. Garber
Bridal Mysticism
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Christ Child
Common Language
Daily Celebration
Ecstatic Trances
Elisabeth Von
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Feminine Exemplarity
gendered imagery
Heinrich Seuse
Hildegard Von Bingen
Johannes Tauler
Licht Der Gottheit
manuscript culture
Mechthild Von Magdeburg
medieval German women's religious texts
Medieval Religious Women
medieval women authors
monastic communities
Ordo Virtutum
Pater Noster
Religious Literary Traditions
religious literature analysis
saintly behavior studies
Unio Mystica
Vision Cycle
Vision Ii
Vita Activa
Vita Mixta
Vitae Fratrum
Von Bingen
Wan Der
Product details
- ISBN 9780415939539
- Weight: 740g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Nov 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This work offers an examination of religious texts written by twelve women over three centuries in two languages and three genres, showing the variety and complexity of gendered images available to medieval women. Moving beyond the categories of virgin, wife and widow, these religious texts created a spectrum of exemplary feminine life-paths based not on marital status, age, social rank, or profession, but instead founded on biblical figures, monastic divisions of labor, expected saintly behaviors, and even individual personality characteristics. This study contributes to discussions of genre and its influences on gender representation, as well as to scholarship on the complexities of gender relationships within literary works and historical contexts. This work will also serve to introduce a wider audience to a cycle of texts and an interrelated group of women authors previously available only to specialists in German and manuscript studies.
