Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hamburger, Jeffrey F

Titel

Marguard von Lindau and the Challenges of Religious Life in Late Medieval Germany: The Passion, the Eucharist, the Virgin Mary

Ist Teil von

• Medium Aevum, 2010, Vol.79 (2), p.347

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this dense, but nonetheless highly readable, monograph on the life, thought, and intellectual milieu of Marquard von Lindau, one of fourteenth-century Germany's most original, independent, and influential pastoral theologians, Stephen Mossman in fact offers something far more ambitious: a compelling account of transformations of doctrine and pastoral teaching in a pan- European context that extends from Wyclif 's England to the Bohemia of Jan Hus and that looks back to Anselm, Hugh of St Victor, Aquinas, and Bonaventure while at the same time looking ahead to Luther and the Reformation. In Mossman's analysis, however, Marquard, far from an epigone, emerges as an original thinker in his own right, many of whose positions on burning issues of the day, from the proper of the imitation of Christ, to the nature of spiritual communion and Mary's contemplation under the cross, anticipate attitudes and approaches more commonly associated with fifteenth-century theologians writing on the eve of the Reformation.