
Ava's New Testament Narratives
"When the Old Law Passed Away"
Medieval Institute Publications (Publisher)
Published on 1. July 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
244 pages
978-1-58044-037-0 (ISBN)
Description
Ava is the first woman whose name we know who wrote in German. She wrote her poem - or poems - on the lives of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ sometime early in the twelfth century, no later than 1127. It seems certain that she was a layperson, and her work reflects a level of learning that raises all sorts of interesting questions about the education of the laity, especially the education of lay woman, and about the nature of authorship in the Middle Ages, generally and particularly in medieval Germany.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
20 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
402 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58044-037-0 (9781580440370)
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When the Old Law Passed Away
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James Rushing is Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Rutgers-Camden. His primary research interests are in medieval literature and culture, above all in the relationship of literary materials to their adaptations in the medieval visual arts, and in the depictions of love, sex, and gender in medieval literature.
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Content
Introduction
Bibliography
Texts and Translations
Johannes
Das Leben Jesu
Der Antichrist
Das Juengste Gericht
Notes
Bibliography
Texts and Translations
Johannes
Das Leben Jesu
Der Antichrist
Das Juengste Gericht
Notes