mechthild of magdeburg - resources
Internet Resources
Biography and Links from "Other Women's Voices":
http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/mechthil.html
Website about Mechthild (in German):
http://www.mechthild-von-magdeburg.de/
Homepage of Kloster Helfta:
http://www.kloster-helfta.de/9/index.php
Books
Andersen, Elizabeth. The Voices of Mechthild of Magdeburg. Oxford; New York: P. Lang, 2000.
Baumstein, Paschal. Mechtild von Magdeburg's Imagery of Union. Belmont Abbey, 1986.
Franklin, James C. Mystical Transformations: The Imagery of Liquids in the Work of Mechthild von Magdeburg. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1978.
Hollywood, Amy M. The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001.
Poor, Sara S. Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book: Gender and the Making of Textual Authority. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Tobin, Frank. Mechthild von Magdeburg: A Medieval Mystic in Modern Eyes. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1995.
Wiethaus, Ulrike. Ecstatic Transformation: Transpersonal Psychology in the Work of Mechthild of Magdeburg. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996.
Scholarly Articles
Bynum, Caroline Walker. "Mechtild of Magdeburg and Her Book: Gender and the Making of Textual Authority." Common Knowledge 11.3 (2005): 487-488.
Classen, Albrecht. "Flowing Light of the Godhead: Binary Oppositions of Self and God in Mechthild von Magdeburg." Studies in Spirituality, 7 (1997): 79-98.
deMayo, Thomas Benjamin. "Mechthild of Magdeburg's Mystical Eschatology." Journal of Medieval History, 25.2 (June 1999): 87-95.
English, Leona M. "An Analysis of Power in the Writing of Mechtild of Magdeburg." Feminist Theology, 14.2 (2006): 89-204.
Poor, Sara S. "Historicizing Canonicity: Tradition and the Invisible Talent of Mechthild von Magdeburg." Women in German Yearbook, 15 (2000): 49-72.
Poor, Sara S. "Mechthild von Magdeburg, Gender, and the 'Unlearned Tongue." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31.2 (2001): 213-250.
Tobin, Frank. "Audience, Authorship, and Authority in Mechthild von Magdeburg's Flowing Light of the Godhead." Mystics Quarterly, 23.1 (1997): 8-17.
Wells, Lola M. "Revelations of Love: Mechthild of Magdeburg's Vision and Experience of the Christian Trinity." American Benedictine Review, 45.3 (1994): 249-268.