TY - BOOK ID - 85230511 TI - The daughter Zion allegory in Medieval German religious writing PY - 2019 SN - 9781472469755 1472469755 9781315615301 9781317036418 9780367881207 PB - London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group DB - UniCat KW - Allegories KW - Christian literature, German KW - German literature KW - Allegory (Art) KW - Exempla KW - Fiction KW - Homiletical illustrations KW - Tales KW - Fables KW - Parables KW - History and criticism KW - Mary, KW - ʻAdhrāʼ KW - Arogyamata KW - Ārōkkiyamāta KW - Birhen ng mga Dukha KW - Blessed Lady KW - Blessed Mother KW - Blessed Virgin Mary, KW - Hagnē Theotokos KW - Madonna, The KW - Mama Mary KW - Mare de Déu KW - Maria, KW - Mariam Astuatsatsin KW - Marie, KW - Marie Théotokos KW - Marii︠a︡, KW - Maryam, KW - Maryja, KW - Meryem Ana KW - Miryam, KW - Mother of God KW - Muíre, KW - Nossa Senhora KW - Our Lady KW - Our Lady of Good Health KW - Our Lady of Sorrows KW - Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament KW - Qiddīsah Maryam KW - Theotokos KW - Vierge Marie, KW - Virgen María KW - Virgin Mary, KW - Virgin of the Poor KW - Ynang Maria KW - مريم KW - مريم العذراء KW - 성모마리아 KW - Our Lady of Emmitsburg KW - Majka Isusova KW - Christian religion KW - Christian spirituality KW - Jewish religion KW - anno 1200-1499 KW - Mariam Astuatsatsin, KW - Meryem Ana, KW - Virgen María, KW - Ynang Maria, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85230511 AB - The Daughter Zion allegory represents a particular narrative articulation of the paradigm of bridal mysticism deriving from the Song of Songs, the core element of which is the quest of Daughter Zion for a worthy object of love. Examining medieval German religious writing (verse and prose) and Dutch prose works, Annette Volfing shows that this storyline provides an excellent springboard for investigating key aspects of medieval religious and literary culture. In particular, she argues, the allegory lends itself to an exploration of the medieval sense of self; of the scope of human agency within the mystical encounter; of the gendering of the religious subject; of conceptions of space and enclosure; and of fantasies of violence and aggression. Volfing suggests that Daughter Zion adaptations increasingly tended to empower the religious subject to seek a more immediate relationship with the divine and to embrace a wider range of emotions: the mediating personifications are gradually eliminated in favour of a model of religious experience in which the human subject engages directly with Christ.0Overall, the development of the allegory from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries marks the striving towards a greater sense of equality and affective reciprocity with the divine, within the context of an erotic union. ER -