From the Material to the Mystical in Late Medieval Piety Kirakosian Hardback

From the Material to the Mystical in Late Medieval Piety\nby Racha Kirakosian\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Racha Kirakosian\nTitle: From the Material to the Mystical in Late Medieval Piety\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of religion\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9781108841238\nISBN-10: 1108841236\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe German mystic Gertrude the Great of Helfta (c.12561301) is a globally venerated saint who is still central to the Sacred Heart Devotion. Her visions were first recorded in Latin, and they inspired generations of readers in processes of creative rewriting. The vernacular copies of these redactions challenge the long-standing idea that translations do not bear the same literary or historical w.