Schriftkultur und religiöse Zentren im norddeutschen Raum

Schriftkultur und religiöse Zentren im norddeutschen Raum, ed. Patrizia Carmassi, Eva Schlotheuer, and Almut Breitenbach (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014). 548 pp.; 16 colour plates. ISBN 978-3-447-10016-8. €108.00. The literary and manuscript culture of northern Germany has in the past been the domain of specialists for this region, whereas this collection of eleven essays shows that there is a larger story to tell. This was partly remedied, with an emphasis on German literary studies, by the Companion to Mysticism and Devotion in Northern Germany in the Late Middle Ages, ed. E. Andersen,...