Probing deeply into texts by and about prominent Christian mystics, religious authors, and saints, German Mysticism and the Politics of Culture challenges the reader to rethink the medieval past as a contemporary presence.

Autorentext
Ulrike Wiethaus received her PhD in religious studies at Temple University. She is currently Professor in the Department of Religion with a joint appointment in American Ethnic Studies at Wake Forest University. Her publications on medieval Christian spirituality include Agnes Blannbekin, Viennese Beguine: Life and Revelations (translated from the Latin with introduction, notes, and interpretive essay, 2002 reissued in 2012); Ecstatic Transformations: Ecstasies and Visions in the Work of Mechthild of Magdeburg and Transpersonal Psychology (1995); Maps of Flesh and Light: The Religious Experience of Medieval Women (edited, with an introduction and a previously unpublished essay, 1993); and Dear Sister: The Correspondence of Medieval Women (co-edited with Karen Cherewatuk, with an introduction and a previously unpublished essay, 1993).

Inhalt
Contents: Unio Mystica - Blood Mysticism - Masculinity - Who is Hrotsvit of Gandersheim? - Homoerotic Desire - The Punishments of Saint Elisabeth - Love and Death in the Vernacular - The Death Song of Marie d'Oignies.