Writing sin in the German lands, 1050-1215 : confession, penance, and textuality /
"'Writing Sin in the German Lands, 1050-1215' is about how sin and atonement function as an impetus for textual production and formal, linguistic, and intellectual creativity. It focuses on the late eleventh and twelfth centuries, a time in which various social and cultural conditions...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2025.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "'Writing Sin in the German Lands, 1050-1215' is about how sin and atonement function as an impetus for textual production and formal, linguistic, and intellectual creativity. It focuses on the late eleventh and twelfth centuries, a time in which various social and cultural conditions came together to provoke both an interest in sin and an opportunity for writing experimentally about it, and its area of enquiry is the German-speaking world. Working with a remarkably rich body of German-language texts, this book allows us not only to grasp with greater clarity aspects of medieval penitential thought and practice, but it also offers new ways of thinking about the development of German as a literary language. The book joins bodies of work on the history of penance and on devotional writing in the European vernaculars, and through the interconnection of these two fields of study, it offers a new perspective on questions that currently occupy scholars of the Middle Ages: the medieval conception of the self in relation to other and to God; the value and function of vernacular writing; the nature of textuality; and the relationship between writing, speech, material text, and performance." -- This resource is about the relationship between dealing with sin and writing poetry in the Middle Ages; focusing particularly on 12th-century Germany, it discusses how people performed penance and thought about their sin through the close consideration of literary texts written in German. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198948339 0198948336 9780198948315 019894831X 9780198948322 0198948328 |