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Marquard von Lindau and the Challenges of Religious Life in Late Medieval Germany - The Passion, the Eucharist, the Virgin Mary (Hardcover, New)
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Marquard von Lindau and the Challenges of Religious Life in Late Medieval Germany - The Passion, the Eucharist, the Virgin Mary (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
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This is a study of the intellectual history and religious culture
of German-speaking Europe in the late Middle Ages. Its focus is the
bilingual oeuvre of the Franciscan friar Marquard von Lindau (d.
1392), arguably the most widely-read author in the German language
before the Reformation. His most successful works were those in
which he considered pragmatic issues of Christian life, aimed at a
broad reading public that stretched from monks and nuns living the
contemplative life in enclosed convents; to his confreres, novices
and students in the mendicant orders; and the literate citizens of
the burgeoning mercantile centers. It is three of these pragmatic
issues, central to late medieval religious life, around which this
book is structured: the Passion of Christ, the sacrament of the
Eucharist, and the devotion to the Virgin Mary.
The dominant approaches taken towards each of these in the
fourteenth-century church represented problematic challenges to
Marquard; challenges which he met in a distinctive and influential
manner, by no means in accordance with the affectively-charged
devotional practices encouraged by many within and without his
order, and so often considered normative for late medieval
religious culture. The original voice with which Marquard spoke is
made clear through the location of his oeuvre within the
pan-European context of the debates in which his works participate.
The ethos his works projected redetermined the trajectory of
intellectual life in Germany into the fifteenth century and beyond.
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