Rosenkränze, Marienmäntel und Seelenhäuser : Gebets- und Andachtsübungen des Spätmittelalters zwischen Bildrede, immersion und figuration
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In this dissertation, I closely analyze a number of texts for prayer and devotion from the German-speaking Middle Ages. Prayerbooks comprise the most extensive manuscript genre of the 15th century and constitute a major source for understanding religious culture at a time when extensive reforms took place across the German-speaking lands. Nonetheless, these texts have until recently been largely ignored by scholarship. In this study, I develop a perspective on late medieval devotional literature that focuses on textual strategies of evoking reader response through figurative language and rhetoric, phenomena of immersion and a process of figuration. From this perspective, I investigate three distinct textual subgenres: rosaries, textile craft prayers, and inner houses. In different ways, I argue, these types of written religious exercises invite the reader to combine a vertical dimension of verbally addressing and signifying the divine with a horizontal dimension of textually stimulated immersive experience. Finally, these two intertwined dynamics of devotional reading cumulate in the creation of experienceable inner realities prefigured by the respective devotional text, which I term 'spiritually concrete.' In the appendix of this study, I provide critical editions and commented German translations of nine important but previously inaccessible texts from the traditions of prayer and devotional literature that my study focusses on. These rich texts provide a window onto medieval culture(s) and practices of piety and furthermore exemplify the forms, textual strategies and effects of devotional literature in the 15th century.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Buschbeck, Bjoern Klaus |
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| Degree supervisor | Starkey, Kathryn |
| Thesis advisor | Starkey, Kathryn |
| Thesis advisor | Eshel, Amir |
| Thesis advisor | Griffiths, Fiona J |
| Degree committee member | Eshel, Amir |
| Degree committee member | Griffiths, Fiona J |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of German Studies |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Bjorn Klaus Buschbeck. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of German Studies. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/mx523wr2784 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Bjoern Klaus Buschbeck