TY - BOOK AU - Poor,Sara S. TI - Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book: Gender and the Making of Textual Authority T2 - The Middle Ages Series SN - 9780812203288 AV - BV5095.M43 -- P66 2004eb U1 - 282/.092 PY - 2004/// CY - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - Mechthild,-of Magdeburg,-approximately 1212-approximately 1282.-Fliessende Licht der Gottheit KW - Women mystics-Biography KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - No detailed description available for "Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book" UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3442217 ER -