Feminine figurae
Subtitle: representations of gender in religious texts by medieval German women writers 1100-1375
By: Rebecca L.R. Garber
Series: Medieval history and culture -- v. 10; Studies in medieval history and culture -- v. 10
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Women -- Germany -- History -- To 1500; Women -- Religious life -- Germany -- History -- To 1500; 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-279) and indexes
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Veiled individuals; title: Women's genres, women's authority; title: Where is the body? Imitability in Hildegard's images of Eve and Mary; title: Invented communities, idealizing the past : redefining monastic ideals in the Dominican sister-books; title: Interlude : personal revelations : re-living the model, in-scribing the self; title: Margaretha Ebner: illness in the service of God; title: Adelheid Langmann : bride of God, beloved of Christ; title: Postlude : personal revelations : generic imitation and expansion; title: Conclusion. Varied ideals