MEDITATIONS ON THE INCARNATION, PASSION AND DEATH OF JESUS CHRIST

Read by Protestants and Catholics alike, Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633-94) was a poet and writer in the seventeenth-century German-speaking. Privileged by her social station and education, she published a large body of religious writings under her own name. But once the popularity of devotional writings as a genre waned, Catharina’s works went largely unread until scholars devoted renewed attention to them in the twentieth century. For this volume, Lynne Tatlock translates for into English three of the thirty-six meditations. These meditations foreground women in the life of Jesus Christ-including accounts of women at the Incarnation and the Tomb-and in Scripture in general. Tatlock’s selections give the modern reader a sense of the structure and nature of Catharina’s devotional writings, highlighting the alternative they offer to the male-centered view of early modern literary and cultural production during her day, and redefining the role of women in Christian history.