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Early Women Writers

Margareta Ebner

Item

Author

Margareta Ebner

Location

Mödingen Convent, Germany

Dates

1291-1351

Biography

Margareta was a German Benedictan nun. She experienced visions in which Christ gave her messages that she recorded in letters and a journal.

Works

Offenbarungen (Revelations) 1344-48, 1 letter to Heinrich, her spiritual advisor

Languages

Middle German

Genres

Mystical, Epistolary

Editions and Translations

Leonard P Hindsley, Margaret Ebner: Major Works, (New York: Paulist Press, 1993)

Archival Holdings

Revelations and The Ebnerin Paternoster: Bl. 1r-89v and Bl. 90r-93r, MsBN 12, Aargau Cantonal Library, Aarau, Switzerland; Bernhard von Clairvaux: Sermones super Canticle canticorum (Alsat.) - Margareta Ebner: Revelations:184r-279r and 282r-285r, Ms. germ. qu. 179, Berlin State Library, Berlin, Germany;Revelations and The Ebnerin Paternoster: Bl.1r-95v and Bl. 98v-101r, A / ME 1 Kloster Maria Medingen, Mödingen, Bavaria, Germany
Revelations: (Hs. M) - Maria Medingen A / ME 1, Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany

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