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In these passages Erasmus raised all the essential questions to which this essay on the literary relationship of a famous German humanist and a famous German woman of learning is directed: the basic problem of feminine aptitude and achievement in letters; the archetypical relationship between St. Jerome and his correspondents Paula, Eustochium, and Marcella; the place of Germany among European nations with respect to the erudita puella; and the suitability of Caritas Pirckheimer, then as now the most famous of the Bilibaldicae, for casting in this role.
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institutionalized functioning, sodalitas litteraria, instituting moment, textual institutions, mystica theologia
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Anna Sophia, Tugendlichen Gesellschaft, Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft, Herzog August, Johann Georg, Conrad Celtis, Klaus Garber, Magdalena Sibylla, Beatus Rhenanus, Elisabeth Sophia, Martin Bircher, Martin Opitz, New York, Pegnesischer Blumenorden, Deutschgesinnete Genossenschaft, Eleonora Maria, Friedrich Wilhelm, Sigmund von Birken, Amoena Amalia, Conrad Wiedemann, Georg Philipp, Joachim Ernst, Johann Klaj, Klaus Conermann, Maria Magdalena
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