1st Edition
St. Elisabeth of Thuringia A Psychological Study (1931)
By Elisabeth Busse-Wilson
Copyright 2025
286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
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Only twelve years after German women had been granted voting rights, the German medievalist Elisabeth Busse-Wilson, a first-wave feminist activist and scholar, challenged centuries of silence about violence against women by taking on the case of the most famous European saint, the young Elisabeth of Thuringia (1207-1231). Married at a very young age, St. Elisabeth soon fell under the spell of the... Read more
Introduction to the Translation, Chapter One: Research Objectives and Categories of Analysis, Chapter Two: Elisabeth's Life, Chapter Three: On the Road to Sainthood, Chapter Four: The Poverella of Marburg, Appendix, Chronology, Annotated Bibliography, Translator's Introduction: Select Bibliography, Translator's Acknowledgments, Note on the Translator.
Biography
Elisabeth Johanna Auguste Busse-Wilson (1890-1974) was a German historian. She was one of the first generation of German women to receive a university education.
