Article: The Body and Eucharistic Devotion in Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg's 'Meditations.'

This is an irritating book on many counts, not least because the title is misleading. (It is 'based on' a dissertation entitled, more accurately: 'Physicality and Women's Eucharistic Devotion in Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg's "Andachtige Betrachtungen"'). However, Foley-Beining is concerned not only - or primarily - to investigate Greiffenberg's work so much as to 'contribute to the reestablishment of women's place in religious literary history' (p. 13): 'the Andachtige Betrachtungen offer a body of material that is invaluable to the telling of a literary history that puts an end to the exclusion of women's voices' (p. 138). Greiffenberg's work is 'pre-feminist' ...

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