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Author Oelhafen von Schöllenbach, Johann Christoph, 1574-1631, author.

Title A widower's lament : the Pious meditations of Johann Christoph Oelhafen / translated with an introduction, notes, and epilogue by Ronald K. Rittgers
Published Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 318 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, portrait
Summary This book deals with Christian lament in the late Reformation by exploring the efforts of a talented yet little-known layman to cope with the death of his beloved wife. It provides full access to the remarkable work of private devotion that he authored to express his lament. A work of haunting candor and searching faith, The Pious Meditations furnishes insight into life in the past as well as resources for life in the present
Notes Title of Oelhafen's manuscript: Piae meditationes vidvitatis, ehev, moestissimae.Title assigned by the Germanisches Naionalmusem Historisches Archiv: Gebetbuch des Hans Christoph Oelhafen
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Texts translated from German and Latin with translation and critical matter in English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 28, 2021)
Subject Meditations.
Laments.
Widowers -- Religious life
Christian life.
Meditations -- Early works to 1800
Laments -- Early works to 1800
Widowers -- Religious life
Christian life
Laments
Meditations
Genre/Form Meditations
Laments
Meditations.
Laments.
Méditations.
Lamentations.
Form Electronic book
Author Rittgers, Ronald K., 1965- translator, editor.
ISBN 1506424813
9781506424811
Other Titles Piae meditationes vidvitatis, ehev, moestissimae. English