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Elisabeth of Schonau - A Twelfth-century Visionary (Hardcover)
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Elisabeth of Schonau - A Twelfth-century Visionary (Hardcover)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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Throughout her adult life, the twelfth-century Benedictine nun
Elisabeth of Schonau claimed to receive divine revelation through a
series of ecstatic visionary experiences. Her reflections on these
experiences were recorded and provide both a rich source of
understanding of the religious life of a medieval woman and an
important perspective on the religious and political ferment of
mid-twelfth-century Germany. Anne L. Clark has written the first
comprehensive study of Elisabeth of Schonau. In it, she points out
that Elisabeth did not transcribe her own revelations, but rather
dictated them to the other nuns of the convent and to her brother
Ekbert. Clark takes on the problem of Elisabeth's literary and
examines the nature and extent of Elisabeth and Ekbert's
collaboration. In addition, Clark offers a new interpretation of
Elisabeth's relationship with Hildegard of Bingen, her celebrated -
and more studied - contemporary. Clark contends that Elisabeth was
not a timid emulator of a brilliant mentor; instead, she had her
own spiritual perspective and her own means of expressing it. In
this way, Clark firmly establishes the originality of Elisabeth's
visionary accounts. In the course of the text, Clark highlights the
social dynamics revealed in these religious meditations,
particularly Elisabeth's place in a world in which women were
subordinated to male authority and lay people were subordinated to
the religious authority of the clergy. Elisabeth of Schonau is an
informative and ground-breaking work. It will be of particular
interest to scholars and students of medieval religion and
mysticism, as well as women's studies.
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