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Brother Hermann's 'Life of the Countess Yolanda of Vianden' [Leben der Graefen Iolande von Vianden] (Hardcover)
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Brother Hermann's 'Life of the Countess Yolanda of Vianden' [Leben der Graefen Iolande von Vianden] (Hardcover)
Series: Medieval Texts & Translations
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First translation into English of the medieval German Leben der
Graefen Iolanda, making it accessible to a wider audience. Brother
Hermann was a cleric in the region of Luxembourg in the last
quarter of the thirteenth century; evidence from his Life of the
Countess Yolanda suggests that he was a Dominican with, perhaps
surprisingly, knowledge of the Middle High German courtly epic and
the poetry of other contemporaries such as Walther von der
Vogelweide. The Life, written shortly after Yolanda's death in
1283, concentrates on her struggle from childhood to free herself
from secular society, principally by avoiding a contracted
marriage, and to enter the cloister of Marienthal, of which she
became Prioress. Although Brother Hermann's epic is hagiographic in
tone, the fact that he wrote itin German, not based on a Latin vita
suggests that he did not regard Yolanda as a candidate for
sainthood; his heroine's attempts to find fulfillment have a strong
contemporary resonance. Professor Lawson's translation, thefirst
ever into English prose, makes this work accessible to a more
general readership.
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