Clare Kirchberger
Clare Kirchberger, born Clara Kirchberger, was an Anglican nun and medievalist, who edited and translated several works of Christian mysticism.
Life[]
Kirchberger was educated at South Hampstead High School and Somerville College, Oxford. In 1912 she was the only woman to obtain a first class in Modern Languages in the Oxford final examinations.[1] She was Assistant Lecturer in Modern Languages at Girton College in 1913-14. Around 1914 she joined the All Saints' Anglican Sisterhood at St Albans.[2]
Kirchberger's 1927 adaptation to modern English of The Mirror of Simple Souls was published in the Orchard Spiritual Classics series, "part of the rediscovery by a newly reinvigorated English Roman Catholic intelligentsia of what they saw as their own pre-Reformation heritage".[3] Like Evelyn Underhill before her, Kirchberger assumed its French author was male. She tentatively identified its Middle English translator as Michael of Northburgh.[3]
Works[]
- (ed.) A Mirror of Simple Souls. London: Burns Oates and WAshbourne, 1927.
- 'A Link with Little Gidding', Theology, Vol. 52, Issue 350 (1949), pp.294-298
- 'The Cleansing of Man's Soul', Life of the Spirit, Vol. 4, No. 43 (January 1950), pp.290-295.
- (ed.) The goad of love: an unpublished translation of the Stimulus amoris, formerly attributed to St. Bonaventura , tr. by Walter Hilton. London: Faber and Faber, 1952.
- (ed.) The coasts of the country; an anthology of prayer drawn from the early English spiritual writers. London: Harvill Press, 1952.
- 'Some Notes on the Ancrene Riwle', Dominican Studies, Vol. 7 (1954), pp.215-38
- (tr., with introduction and notes) Selected writings on contemplation by Richard of Saint Victor. London: Faber and Faber, 1957.
- (ed.) Spiritual exercises by William Perin, O.P.. With a foreword by Vincent McNabb. London: Blackfriars, 1957.
References[]
- ^ 'University Intelligence', The Times, 26 June 1912, p.12; 'University Intelligence', The Times, 27 June 1912, p.6.
- ^ Girton College Register: 1869-1946, p.646.
- ^ a b Nicholas Watson (1996). "Melting into God the English Way: Deification in the Middle English Version of Marguerite Porete's Mirouer des simples âmes anienties". In Rosalynn Voaden (ed.). Prophets Abroad: The Reception of Continental Holy Women in Late-medieval England. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 23–. ISBN 978-0-85991-425-3.
- 19th-century births
- 20th-century deaths
- Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford
- Anglican nuns
- Medievalists
- Women medievalists
- Editor stubs
- British translator stubs