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COPYRIGHT 2002 Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature
(Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000). 255 pp. ISBN 3-906765-60-1. 26.00 [pounds sterling].
Mechthild von Magdeburg's thirteenth-century mystical text Das fliessende Licht der Gottheit is, in a new edition and translation, increasingly being studied by English-speaking academics and students. Elizabeth Andersen thus fills an emerging gap in the market with this first general English-language introduction to the text. Addressing newcomers to the Fliessendes Licht and writing as a literary critic rather than as a theologian or historian, Andersen begins by sketching the works...
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