The mystics of Engelthal
Subtitle: writings from a medieval monastery
By: Leonard P. Hindsley.
Contributors: Kloster Engelthal.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Kloster Engelthal -- History.; Mysticism -- Germany -- Engelthal (Nürnberger Land) -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Dominican sisters -- Germany -- Engelthal (Nürnberger Land) -- Biography -- History and criticism.; Mystics -- Germany -- Engelthal (Nürnberger Land) -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Description: The nuns and chaplains who lived at the Monastery of Engelthal, a fourteenth-century monastery near Nuremberg, Germany, were responsible for a remarkable collection of autobiographical and biographical texts during the 1300s. The Mystics of Engelthal is the first English-language book to unveil these writings and to examine the meanings contained within them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-229) and index.