Life giving resources. Faithfully delivered.
FREE delivery on orders over £10
Serving over 2 million Christians in the UK
with Bibles, Books and Church Supplies
Our Buy-Now-Pay-Later accounts used
by over 4,000 UK Churches & Schools
Excellent 4.8 out of 5

Trustpilot

You now have 0 of this item in your basket

Brother Hermann's "Life of the Countess Yolanda of Vianden"

Leben Der Graefen Iolande Von Vianden [Hardback]

by Richard H. Lawson

Author
Richard H. Lawson
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published
July 1995

Read full description

Click to expand

Today's Price

£42.79

Save 43%

Free UK Delivery

Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days

Buying for a school or church? Upgrade to a FREE Eden Advance Account

Enter the product quantity

Brother Hermann's "Life of the Countess Yolanda of Vianden"

Today's Price £42.79

Frequently Bought Together

Brother Hermann's "Life of the Countess Yolanda of Vianden"

by Richard H. Lawson

Hardback

Bede

by Bede Bede +1

Paperback

Add both to basket for £61.73 and save £43.26

Product Description

Brother Hermann was a cleric in the region of Luxembourg in the last quarter of the thirteenth century; evidence from his Life of the Countess Yolanda suggests that he was a Dominican with, perhaps surprisingly, knowledge of the Middle High German courtly epic and the poetry of other contemporaries such as Walther von der Vogelweide. The Life, written shortly after Yolanda's death in 1283, concentrates on her struggle from childhood to free herself from secular society, principally by avoiding a contracted marriage, and to enter the cloister of Marienthal, of which she became Prioress. Although Brother Hermann's epic is hagiographic in tone, the fact that he wrote it in German, not based on a Latin vita suggests that he did not regard Yolanda as a candidate for sainthood; his heroine's attempts to find fulfillment have a strong contemporary resonance. Professor Lawson's translation, the first ever into English prose, makes this work accessible to a more general readership.