ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights a number of aspects concerning the reception of the Daughter Zion allegory at Engelthal. It explores the existence of the mystical songs alongside the revelatory writings of individual nuns shows a widespread desire to identify with the figure of Daughter Zion, as she was known both from the Advent antiphons and from the allegorical narrative. The chapter examines comparison of the writings associated with Christine Ebner and Adelheid Langmann demonstrates that these two nuns appear to have been attracted to the Daughter Zion material for very different reasons. It aims to show how easily the Daughter Zion material combines with elements from other mystical texts, such as Mechthild's Das fließende Licht, in the construction of 'lived' mystical experience. During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, members of the Dominican convent of Engelthal near Nuremberg exhibit a particularly intensive literary engagement with the figure of Daughter Zion.
