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Ava's New Testament Narratives: When the Old Law Passed Away
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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Ava's New Testament Narratives: When the Old Law Passed Away
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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Ava's New Testament Narratives: When the Old Law Passed Away

Ava's New Testament Narratives: When the Old Law Passed Away

by Medieval Institute Publications
Ava's New Testament Narratives: When the Old Law Passed Away

Ava's New Testament Narratives: When the Old Law Passed Away

by Medieval Institute Publications

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781580440370
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Publication date: 07/01/2003
Series: TEAMS Medieval German Texts in Bilingual Editions , #2
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 244
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.17(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction Bibliography Texts and Translation Johannes Das Leben Jesu Der Antichrist Das Jungste Gericht Notes
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