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The Daughter Zion Allegory in Medieval German Religious Writing (Paperback)
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The Daughter Zion Allegory in Medieval German Religious Writing (Paperback)
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The Daughter Zion allegory represents a particular narrative
articulation of the paradigm of bridal mysticism deriving from the
Song of Songs, the core element of which is the quest of Daughter
Zion for a worthy object of love. Examining medieval German
religious writing (verse and prose) and Dutch prose works, Annette
Volfing shows that this storyline provides an excellent springboard
for investigating key aspects of medieval religious and literary
culture. In particular, she argues, the allegory lends itself to an
exploration of the medieval sense of self; of the scope of human
agency within the mystical encounter; of the gendering of the
religious subject; of conceptions of space and enclosure; and of
fantasies of violence and aggression. Volfing suggests that
Daughter Zion adaptations increasingly tended to empower the
religious subject to seek a more immediate relationship with the
divine and to embrace a wider range of emotions: the mediating
personifications are gradually eliminated in favour of a model of
religious experience in which the human subject engages directly
with Christ. Overall, the development of the allegory from the
twelfth to the fifteenth centuries marks the striving towards a
greater sense of equality and affective reciprocity with the
divine, within the context of an erotic union.
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