LEADER 04607nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910787519003321 005 20211217004757.0 010 $a0-8122-0328-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203288 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418333 035 $a(OCoLC)859161583 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748762 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001053303 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11950362 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053303 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11114269 035 $a(PQKB)10790175 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26822 035 $a(DE-B1597)449170 035 $a(OCoLC)1013955061 035 $a(OCoLC)979578065 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203288 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442217 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748762 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682392 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442217 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418333 100 $a20040303d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMechthild of Magdeburg and her book$b[electronic resource] $egender and the making of textual authority /$fSara S. Poor 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (350 p.) 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51110-1 311 0 $a0-8122-3802-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [289]-314) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: The Problem of Mechthild's Authorship --$t1. Choosing the Vernacular: The Politics of Language and the Art of Devotion --$t2. Visions of Authorship: Cloaking the Body in Text --$t3. Transmission Lessons: Gender, Audience, and the Mystical Handbook --$t4. Productive Consumption: Women Readers and the Production of Late Medieval Devotional Anthologies --$t5. Historicizing Canonicity: Tradition and the Invisible Talent of Mechthild of Magdeburg --$tAPPENDICES --$tAppendix A: Manuscript Transmission of Das flie Bencle Licht cler Gottheit --$tAppendix B: Würzburg Franziskanerkloster Hs. I IIO (paper) --$tAppendix C: Budapest, Országos Széchényi Könyvtár Cod. Germ. 38 (paper) --$tAppendix D Colmar, Bibliothčque de la Ville, Ms. 2137 (paper) --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aSometime around 1230, a young woman left her family and traveled to the German city of Magdeburg to devote herself to worship and religious contemplation. Rather than living in a community of holy women, she chose isolation, claiming that this life would bring her closer to God. Even in her lifetime, Mechthild of Magdeburg gained some renown for her extraordinary book of mystical revelations, The Flowing Light of the Godhead, the first such work in the German vernacular. Yet her writings dropped into obscurity after her death, many assume because of her gender.In Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book, Sara S. Poor seeks to explain this fate by considering Mechthild's own view of female authorship, the significance of her choice to write in the vernacular, and the continued, if submerged, presence of her writings in a variety of contexts from the thirteenth through the nineteenth century. Rather than explaining Mechthild's absence from literary canons, Poor's close examination of medieval and early modern religious literature and of contemporary scholarly writing reveals her subject's shifting importance in a number of differently defined traditions, high and low, Latin and vernacular, male- and female-centered. While gender is often a significant factor in this history, Poor demonstrates that it is rarely the only one. Her book thus corrects late twentieth-century arguments about women writers and canon reform that often rest on inadequate notions of exclusion. Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book offers new insights into medieval vernacular mysticism, late medieval women's roles in the production of culture, and the construction of modern literary traditions. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aWomen mystics$vBiography 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aGender Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aWomen's Studies. 615 0$aWomen mystics 676 $a282/.092 700 $aPoor$b Sara S$01480439 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787519003321 996 $aMechthild of Magdeburg and her book$93697083 997 $aUNINA