Der »Herzmahner« als spätmittelalterliche Gebetserzählung

Hedwig Suwelack places the Herzmahner, a prayer book printed by Kaspar Hochfeder in Nuremberg around 1497, at the centre of this study. Taking historical and literary backgrounds into consideration, she captures the Herzmahner's specific approach between prayer and narrative with the term »Gebetserzählung.« In the construction of space and time as narrative elements, a strategy is traced that brings the narrated events close to the recipients and enables them to individually experience the Passion of Christ.
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