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Christianity & Literature, 2010, Vol.60 (1), p.165-169
2010

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Poetry and Parental Bereavement in Early Modern Lutheran Germany by Anna Linton (review)
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  • Christianity & Literature, 2010, Vol.60 (1), p.165-169
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Malibu: Johns Hopkins University Press
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2010
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  • In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: BOOK REVIEWS 165 Scholarly opinions have circulated for a similar amount of time about the ultimate orality of the Shakespearean canon as well. Thus, Green's gift to scholarship here is that he has transferred that understanding to a heretofore unexamined corpus of evidence-the fossilized remains of post -Reformation Protestant sermons. His source texts, and the libraries which contain them, are genuinely obscure and arcane. As a result, this specific tract will not attract a wide readership. It will, however, serve as a useful resource for those interested in the historiography of English-language sermons of that era and those, like myself, who constantly search for new avenues of exploration when considering the whole academic subset of oral discursivity. This tract adds a new pool of ingredients to this scholarly synergy. The sad part of this tract is that while Green notes the manuscript nature of the vast number of texts he surveys, he fails to genuinely understand how these human communication formats progress through its natural life cycle. I have to confess that prior to my reading this tract, I had little insight into how certain texts of this later, post-Reformation era followed this same developmental pathway. To that end, I have to extend a very personal and appreciative acknowledgement to Professor Green and his research. Perhaps, in closing, I can reconstitute my opening scene. The two famous scholars present at the Parker that day included Paul Szarmach, (now Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America) and Timothy Graham (now Director of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of New Mexico). I was the third. In my own dreams, I have the mystical capability of adding both Ian Green and the late Walter Ong to our conversation and can only speculate where that synergy would have taken us all. A very small but highly appreciative audience is probably the best that Professor Green's oral lecture-and the post-production script that froze his insights into this published tract-can expect. Norbert A. Wethington OberlinCollege Affiliate Scholar Poetry and Parental Bereavement in Early Modern Lutheran Germany. ByAnna Linton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-923336-6. Pp. xiv + 319. $110.00 (hardcover). This is a book about the death of children-the horribly frequent and (for seventeenth-century Europe at least) seemingly inevitable death of children-and the poetic means many people found of dealing with it. The researcher in this field has, it is sad to realize, a wealth of materials upon which to draw. Funeral booklets (Leichenpredigte) primarily from the seventeenth 166 CHRISTIANITY AND LITERATURE century have been preserved in extraordinary numbers in German university libraries, with major collections at Wittenberg, Weimar, Wolfenbiittel, Saale, and Zwickau. Weimar's Stolberg collection alone contains 20,000 of these works (10). A printed compilation of funeral sermons and other mementoes from an individual's funeral rites, the Leichenpredigt represents a literary genre for the Early Modern period in the Lutheran states, as the recent work of Cornelia Niekus Moore (Patterned Lives: The Lutheran Funeral Biography in Early Modern Germany, 2006) has convincingly argued. But whereas Niekus Moore studied the biographies of prominent citizens found in these texts, Linton examines the funeral booklets of children, from infants to adolescents, and specifically the poems dedicated to children and written by relatives, friends, and acquaintances. Focusing upon the manner in which the bereaved used poetry to define their grief and communicate it to their communities and to themselves, Linton both dignifies this genre of occasional poetry and validates the sincerity of the poets' bereavement. After briefly reviewing the classical and patristic origins of Christian consolation, Linton analyzes in her first chapter how Lutheran doctrine affected the experience of bereavement. Once one is rid of belief in Purgatory, for example, and of the responsibility to do something to ease the passage of a soul through that purifying process, one can focus one's energies upon gestures of consolation and corroboration. And because Lutherans accept the admission into heaven of the souls of miscarried fetuses and still-born infants who do not qualify for baptism, the mother who loses a baby in this way can be encouraged...
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Englisch
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ISSN: 0148-3331
eISSN: 2056-5666
Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_journals_2447103978

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