Hadewijch
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Author
Hadewijch
Location
Duchy of Brabant, now Belgium (Antwerp)
Dates
d.1248
Biography
Hadewijch was a 13th-century poet and mystic, probably living in the Duchy of Brabant.
Works
Poems in Stanzas (Strophische Gedichten), Poems in Couplets (Mengeldichten), Lijst der volmaakten (list of the perfect ones), 30 prose letters, Visioenenboek (Book of Visions)
Languages
Middle Dutch
Genres
Devotional, Prose letters, Poetry
Editions and Translations
Columba Hart (ed. and translator), preface by Paul Mommaers (1980), Hadewijch: The Complete Works, Paulist Press; Marieke J. E. H. T. van Baest (essay and translations), preface by Edward Schillebeeckx (1998), Poetry of Hadewijch; edited, introduced, and translated [into modern Dutch] by Veerle Fraeters & Frank Willaert (with a reconstruction of the melodies by Louis Peter Grijp and recordings) (2009), Liederen, Historische Uitgeverij
Archival Holdings
Brieven, visioenen, strofische gedichten, mengeldichten (Poems in Stanzas, Letters, and Book of Visions): BHSL.HS.0941, Ghent University Library, Belgium.
