| The Body and Eucharistic Devotion in Catharina Regina Von Greiffenberg's 'Meditations' Contributor(s): Foley-Beining, Kathleen (Author) |
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ISBN: 1571130365 ISBN-13: 9781571130365 Publisher: Camden House (NY) OUR PRICE: $71.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 1997 Annotation: This book presents a fresh view of Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg, the German Baroque devotional writer, and her largely neglected prose work Die andchtigen Betrachtungen (Meditations). The Meditations show that von 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 demonstrating her own corporeal religious experience. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German - Poetry | European - German |
| Dewey: 831.5 |
| LCCN: 96045167 |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.37" W x 9.26" (1.00 lbs) 168 pages |