Mechthild Of Magdeburg And Her Book
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Mechthild Of Magdeburg
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Author : Mechthild
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2003
Mechthild Of Magdeburg written by Mechthild and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Collections categories.
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. Dr Elizabeth A. Andersen teaches in the School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University.
Mechthild Of Magdeburg And Her Book
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Author : Sara S. Poor
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2013-03-26
Mechthild Of Magdeburg And Her Book written by Sara S. Poor and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Sometime around 1230, a young woman left her family and traveled to the German city of Magdeburg to devote herself to worship and religious contemplation. Rather than living in a community of holy women, she chose isolation, claiming that this life would bring her closer to God. Even in her lifetime, Mechthild of Magdeburg gained some renown for her extraordinary book of mystical revelations, The Flowing Light of the Godhead, the first such work in the German vernacular. Yet her writings dropped into obscurity after her death, many assume because of her gender. In Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book, Sara S. Poor seeks to explain this fate by considering Mechthild's own view of female authorship, the significance of her choice to write in the vernacular, and the continued, if submerged, presence of her writings in a variety of contexts from the thirteenth through the nineteenth century. Rather than explaining Mechthild's absence from literary canons, Poor's close examination of medieval and early modern religious literature and of contemporary scholarly writing reveals her subject's shifting importance in a number of differently defined traditions, high and low, Latin and vernacular, male- and female-centered. While gender is often a significant factor in this history, Poor demonstrates that it is rarely the only one. Her book thus corrects late twentieth-century arguments about women writers and canon reform that often rest on inadequate notions of exclusion. Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book offers new insights into medieval vernacular mysticism, late medieval women's roles in the production of culture, and the construction of modern literary traditions.
The Flowing Light Of The Godhead
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Author : Mechthild (of Magdeburg)
language : en
Publisher: Paulist Press
Release Date : 1998
The Flowing Light Of The Godhead written by Mechthild (of Magdeburg) and has been published by Paulist Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Here is the first English translation based on the new critical edition of The Flowing Light of the Godhead, the sole mystical visionary work of Mechthild, a 13th-century (c. 1260-c. 1282/94) German Beguine. This challenging work of deep religious insight reflects Mechthild's inner life, and God's as well, employing a great variety of traditional medieval literary forms and genres in prose and verse.
Meditations From Mechthild Of Magdeburg
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Author : Mechthild (of Magdeburg)
language : en
Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
Release Date : 1999
Meditations From Mechthild Of Magdeburg written by Mechthild (of Magdeburg) and has been published by Paraclete Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Religion categories.
In the passionate poetry of a bride to her bridegroom, this thirteenth-century German mystic recorded thirty years of her most intimate conversations with God. The selections in this edition offer a powerful glimpse into Mechthild's vision of God and her constant longing to be in his heart. This eloquent female ascetic recounts her mystical union with God in an unusual combination of literary genres ranging from rich allegory to lyrical poetry and prose. At age twenty, Mechthild left her home to begin a life of intense prayer as a beguine under the direction of the Dominicans. Continually speaking out against abuses in the Church, Mechthild incurred a lifelong conflict with the religious authorities of her time, making the survival of her writings all the more remarkable.
The Soul As Virgin Wife
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Author : Amy Hollywood
language : en
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Release Date : 2000-12-05
The Soul As Virgin Wife written by Amy Hollywood and has been published by University of Notre Dame Pess this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-12-05 with Religion categories.
The Soul as Virgin Wife presents the first book-length study to give a detailed account of the theological and mystical teachings written by women themselves, especially by those known as beguines, which have been especially neglected. Hollywood explicates the difference between the erotic and imagistic mysticism, arguing that Mechthild, Porete, and Eckhart challenge the sexual ideologies prevalent in their culture and claim a union without distinction between the soul and the divine. The beguines' emphasis in the later Middle Ages on spiritual poverty has long been recognized as an important influence on subsequent German and Flemish mystical writers, in particular the great German Dominican preacher and apophatic theologian Meister Eckhart. In The Soul as Virgin Wife, Amy Hollywood presents the first book-length study to give a detailed textual account of these debts. Through an analysis of Magdeburg's The Flowing Light of the Godhead, Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls, and the Latin commentaries and vernacular sermons of Eckhart, Hollywood uncovers the intricate web of influence and divergence between the beguinal spiritualities and Eckhart.
Meister Eckhart And The Beguine Mystics
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Author : Bernard McGinn
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1997-01-09
Meister Eckhart And The Beguine Mystics written by Bernard McGinn and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-09 with Religion categories.
The great German mystic Meister Eckhart remains one of the most fascinating figures in Western thought. Revived interest in Eckhart's mysticism has been matched, and even surpassed, by the study of the women mystics of the late13th century. This book argues that Eckhart's thought cannot be fully be understood until it is viewed against the background of the breakthroughs made by the women mystics who preceded him.
The Voices Of Mechthild Of Magdeburg
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Author : Elizabeth A. Andersen
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Release Date : 2000
The Voices Of Mechthild Of Magdeburg written by Elizabeth A. Andersen and has been published by Peter Lang Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
The Revelations Of Mechthild Of Magdeburg 1210 1297
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Author : Mechthild (of Magdeburg)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
The Revelations Of Mechthild Of Magdeburg 1210 1297 written by Mechthild (of Magdeburg) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with Love categories.
Mechthild Of Magdeburg
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Author : Mechthild of Magdeburg
language : en
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
Release Date : 2012-03-01
Mechthild Of Magdeburg written by Mechthild of Magdeburg and has been published by Martino Fine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-01 with Religion categories.
2012 Reprint of Original 1953 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. (c)New introduction and foreword Martino Publishing. This work is the first English translation of her 13th century classic-the mystical writings of Mechthild of Magdeburg. The only complete codex of this work is in the library of Einsiedeln in Switzerland, where the translator spent three years translating the codex from a South German translation of 1344. The book is a collection of visions, revelations, thoughts and letters written in alternating prose and poetry. The variety of its contents includes practical advice on daily conduct, as well as the most sublime descriptions of high mystical experience. Her works were early translated into Latin, and were almost certainly known to Dante, whose vision of heaven, hell and purgatory went on to have a great influence in Western Literature. Her influence is traceable in the Paradiso and by some scholars she is thought to have been the Matilda in the earthly paradise. Her works remains to this day a classic text of Christian mysticis
The Revelations Of Mechthild Of Magdeburg 1210 1297 Or The Flowing Light Of The Godhead
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Author : Mechthild (von Magdeburg)
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
The Revelations Of Mechthild Of Magdeburg 1210 1297 Or The Flowing Light Of The Godhead written by Mechthild (von Magdeburg) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with categories.