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Mechthild of Magdeburg; trans. Elizabeth A. Andersen.
Selections: The Flowing Light of the Godhead, Translated from the Middle High German, with Introduction, notes and Interpretive essay.
Published Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003.
Series: Library of Medieval Women.
ISBN 085991786X.
ISBN-13: 9780859917865.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Antony Rowe, Chippenham.
Size: 142x223x18mm.
Page count: [vi],170pp.
Main language: English.
Unused bargain: these copies show some shop wear, some mild scuffs on the boards, pages edges a little dusty and starting to fox.

This item £14.50
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Weight without packaging: 368g.

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Mechthild of Magdeburg's The Flowing Light of the Godhead is one of the great surprises of German medieval literature. Compiled between c.1250 and c.1282, it is an extraordinary piece of imaginative writing. It integrates visions, auditions, dialogues, prayers, hymns, lyrical love poems, letters, allegories and parables, and draws creatively on features from hagiography, the disputation, the treatise, and magic spells, as the author documents her relationship with God and with her contemporaries.

Within the context of German literary history, it is the first text in the tradition of mystical writing that was neither a translation nor a free adaptation of a Latin text, but rather an independent composition in the vernacular. Also of major significance is the fact that this text was written by a woman, thus offering insights into the cultural and social-historical context of the female religious (Mechthild lived her adult life as a beguine and latterly as a nun) in thirteenth-century northern Europe.

Selections from the text are presented here in translation with introduction and notes.

Contents:
Selections from The Flowing Light of the Godhead;
Interpretive essay. 'With the eyes of my soul': bearing witness.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Introduction: 21pp
Notes: at foot of page
Tables:
Genealogies:
Chronology:
Glossary:
Bibliography: 9pp
Index: yes

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