Contents

pp.：  7 – 8

Preface

pp.：  9 – 10

List of Contributors

pp.：  11 – 14

List of Maps

pp.：  15 – 16

List of Illustrations

pp.：  17 – 18

List of Textual Appendices to the Chapters

pp.：  19 – 22

Chapter One Introduction: Mysticism and Devotion in Northern Germany

pp.：  23 – 42

Chapter Two Liturgy and Reform: Northern German Convents in the Late Middle Ages

pp.：  43 – 68

Part One Beginnings and Formations. Mystical Culture and the Helfta Circle

pp.：  69 – 70

Chapter Three Hadewijch of Brabant and the Beguine Movement

pp.：  71 – 94

Chapter Four Transmission and Impact: Mechthild of Magdeburg’s Das fliessende Licht der Gottheit

pp.：  95 – 124

Chapter Five Text Production and Authorship: Gertrude of Helfta’s Legatus divinae pietatis

pp.：  125 – 152

Chapter Six Latin and the Vernacular: Mechthild of Magdeburg—Mechthild of Hackeborn—Gertrude of Helfta

pp.：  153 – 178

Part Two Transmission, Transformation and Exchange. Devotional Culture and the Lüneburg Convents

pp.：  179 – 180

Chapter Seven Prelude: Northern Circulation of Fourteenth-Century Mystical Texts

pp.：  181 – 200

Chapter Eight An Urban Housewife as a Saint for Prussia: Dorothea of Montau and Johannes Marienwerder

pp.：  201 – 226

Chapter Nine Birgitta of Sweden in Northern Germany: Translation, Transmission and Reception

pp.：  227 – 252

Chapter Ten The Influence of the Devotio Moderna in Northern Germany

pp.：  253 – 282

Chapter Eleven Religious Song and Devotional Culture in Northern Germany

pp.：  283 – 306

Chapter Twelve Liturgy and Performance in Northern Germany: Two Easter Plays from Wienhausen

pp.：  307 – 338

Chapter Thirteen Bilingual Devotion in Northern Germany: Prayer Books from the Lüneburg Convents

pp.：  339 – 364

Chapter Fourteen Intellectual Horizons: Letters from a Northern German Convent

pp.：  365 – 394

Illustrations

pp.：  395 – 406

Bibliography

pp.：  407 – 438

Glossary

pp.：  439 – 442

Index

pp.：  443 – 451