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Author Garber, Rebecca L. R

Title Feminine Figurae : Representations of Gender in Religious Texts by Medieval German Women Writers, 1100-1475
Published New York : Routledge, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (315 pages)
Series Studies in Medieval History and Culture
Studies in medieval history and culture.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Series Editor Foreword; Dedication; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION Veiled Individuals; CHAPTER 1 Women's Genres, Women's Authority; CHAPTER 2 Where Is the Body? Imitability in Hildegard's Images of Eve and Mary; CHAPTER 3 Invented Communities, Idealizing the Past: Redefining Monastic Ideals in the Dominican Sister-Books; INTERLUDE Personal Revelations: Re-Living the Model, In-Scribing the Self; CHAPTER 4 Margaretha Ebner: Illness in the Service of God; CHAPTER 5 Adelheid Langmann: Bride of God, Beloved of Christ
POSTLUDE Personal Revelations: Generic Imitation and ExpansionCONCLUSION Varied Ideals; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF TITLES AND PROPER NAMES; SUBJECT INDEX
Summary First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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Subject Christian literature, German -- History and criticism
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Germany -- History and criticism
German literature -- Middle High German, 1050-1500 -- History and criticism
Women -- Germany -- History -- To 1500
Women -- Religious life -- Germany -- History -- To 1500
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Christian literature, German
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
German literature -- Middle High German
Intellectual life
Women
Women -- Religious life
SUBJECT Germany -- Intellectual life -- To 1500
Subject Germany
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136715259
1136715258