Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 168 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 454 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 168 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 454 g
Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
ISBN: 978-1-57113-036-5
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
New study of the writings of Catharina von Greiffenberg, the German Baroque religious author.
This book presents a fresh view of Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg, the German Baroque devotional writer, and her largely neglected prose work Die andächtigen Betrachtungen (Meditations). The Meditations show thatvon Greiffenberg's identity as a woman profoundly influenced her perception of the Incarnation, and associate her closely with earlier generations of German female visionaries, such as Hrotswitha von Gandersheim, Mechthild von Magdeburg, and Christine Ebner; the author argues that von Greiffenberg ignores the long-established denigration of the female and the body, linking and elevating women's biological and spiritual experience, while also demonstratingher own corporeal religious experience.
