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Product Description: The volume presents a collection of papers by noted German and British medievalists, who join the discussion on the concept of text in German Medieval Studies. This topic has been intensively aired in recent years, as new insights from editorial philology, narratology and media theory have led to 'medieval text' becoming an open and methodologically elusive quantity...read more

Product Description: Mechthild of Magdeburg's The Flowing Light of the Godhead is one of the great surprises of German medieval literature. Compiled between c.1250 and c.1282, it is an extraordinary piece of imaginative writing. It integrates visions, auditions, dialogues, prayers, hymns, lyrical love poems, letters, allegories and parables, and draws creatively on features from hagiography, the disputation, the treatise, and magic spells, as the author documents her relationship with God and with her contemporaries...read more

Product Description: Mechthild of Magdeburg's singular book Das Flieende Licht der Gottheit ('The Flowing Light of the Godhead') must be accounted one of the most significant texts in German that we have from the thirteenth century. As a piece of first-rate imaginative writing in the vernacular it is a highly rewarding text for those interested in medieval literature and women's writing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Abrahams, Fred, Human Rights Watch (Organization), Andersen, Elizabeth (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)