{"product_id":"a-companion-to-mysticism-and-devotion-in-northern-germany-in-the-late-middle-ages-9789004257931","title":"A Companion to Mysticism and Devotion in Northern Germany in the Late Middle Ages","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume explores the hitherto uncharted late medieval religious landscape of Northern Germany, from 13th-century Helfta to the 15th-century Lüneburg convents. The mystical and devotional writing of Northern Germany is contextualised through chapters on the Netherlands, Scandinavia and East Prussia. The seminal influence of the liturgy on these texts and their transmission is revealed in the creative interplay of Latin and Low German. Through the individual chapters and their appendices, which also contain translations into English, the reader can access a wealth of texts produced by communities of religious and lay women who write learnedly in Latin and fervently in Low German. Together, the chapters and appendices reveal a fascinating regional \"mystical culture\" which also reverberated across Northern Europe.  Contributors include: Jürgen Bärsch, Anne Bollmann, Veerle Fraeters, Ulrike Hascher-Burger, Ernst Hellgardt, Tanja Mattern, Balazs Nemes, Sara S. Poor, Eva Schlotheuber, Almut Suerbaum, and Geert Warnar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  List of Contributors  List of Maps  List of Illustrations  List of Textual Appendices to the Chapters    1 Introduction: Mysticism and Devotion in Northern Germany  Elizabeth Andersen, Henrike Lähnemann and Anne Simon  2 Liturgy and Reform: Northern German Convents in the Late Middle Ages  Jürgen Bärsch   Part One  Beginnings and Formations—Mystical Culture and the Helfta Circle  3 Hadewijch of Brabant and the Beguine Movement  Veerle Fraeters  4 Transmission and Impact: Mechthild of Magdeburg’s Das fließende Licht der Gottheit  Sara S. Poor  5 Text Production and Authorship: Gertrude of Helfta’s Legatus divinae pietatis  Balázs J. Nemes  6 Latin and the Vernacular: Mechthild of Magdeburg— Mechthild of Hackeborn—Gertrude of Helfta  Ernst Hellgardt   Part Two  Transmission, Transformation and Exchange—Devotional Culture and the Lüneburg Convents  7 Prelude: Northern Circulation of Fourteenth-Century Mystical Texts  Geert Warnar  8 An Urban Housewife as a Saint for Prussia: Dorothea of Montau and Johannes Marienwerder  Almut Suerbaum  9 Birgitta of Sweden in Northern Germany: Translation, Transmission and Reception  Elizabeth Andersen  10 The Influence of the Devotio Moderna in Northern Germany  Anne Bollmann  11 Religious Song and Devotional Culture in Northern Germany  Ulrike Hascher-Burger  12 Liturgy and Performance in Northern Germany: Two Easter Plays from Wienhausen  Tanja Mattern  13 Bilingual Devotion in Northern Germany: Prayer Books from the Lüneburg Convents  Henrike Lähnemann  14 Intellectual Horizons: Letters from a Northern German Convent  Eva Schlotheuber  Illustrations  Bibliography  Glossary  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210641170775,"sku":"9789004257931","price":211.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-companion-to-mysticism-and-devotion-in-northern-germany-in-the-late-middle-ages-9789004257931","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}