Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book : Gender and the Making of Textual Authority.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (350 pages)
- The Middle Ages Series .
- The Middle Ages Series .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Problem of Mechthild's Authorship -- 1 Choosing the Vernacular: The Politics of Language and the Art of Devotion -- 2 Visions of Authorship: Cloaking the Body in Text -- 3 Transmission Lessons: Gender, Audience, and the Mystical Handbook -- 4 Productive Consumption: Women Readers and the Production of Late Medieval Devotional Anthologies -- 5 Historicizing Canonicity: Tradition and the Invisible Talent of Mechthild of Magdeburg -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
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Mechthild,-of Magdeburg,-approximately 1212-approximately 1282.-Fliessende Licht der Gottheit. Women mystics-Biography.