Annette Volfing, John the Evangelist and Medieval German Writing: Imitating the Inimitable.(Book Review)

Publication: Medium Aevum

Publication Date: 22-SEP-02

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COPYRIGHT 2002 Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature

(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). 284 pp. ISBN 0-19-924684-X. 45.00 [pounds sterling].

A commonplace in commentaries on John the Evangelist was that, at the Last Supper, he imbibed the Wisdom Incarnate embodied by the Saviour that he later revealed in his Gospel and the Apocalypse. In her deft study of the role of the Evangelist in German texts of the later Middle Ages, Volfing extracts significant scholarly wisdom from works never previously united under this rubric, including sermons, Johannes-libelli, narratives based on Scripture, and `Meisterlieder'. Perhaps on account of this range of genres, Volfing's title...

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