A Companion to Middle English Prose

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Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843840183
Total Pages : 354 pages
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Book Synopsis A Companion to Middle English Prose by : Anthony Stockwell Garfield Edwards

Download or read book A Companion to Middle English Prose written by Anthony Stockwell Garfield Edwards and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume provide an up-to-date and authoritative guide to the major prose Middle English authors and genres. Each chapter is written by a leading authority on the subject and offers a succinct account of all relevant literary, history and cultural factors that need to considered, together with bibliographical references. Authors examined include the writers of the Ancrene Wisse, the Katherine Group and the Wohunge Group; Richard Rolle; Walter Hilton; Nicholas Love; Julian of Norwich; Margery Kempe; "Sir John Mandeville"; John Trevisa, Reginald Pecock; and John Fortescue. Genres discussed include romances, saints' lives, letters, sermon literature, historical prose, anonymous devotional writings, Wycliffite prose, and various forms of technical writing. The final chapter examines the treatment of Middle English prose in the first age of print. Contributors: BELLA MILLETT, RALPH HANNA III, AD PUTTER, KANTIK GHOSH, BARRY A. WINDEATT, A.C. SPEARING, IAN HIGGINS, A.S.G. EDWARDS, VINCENT GILLESPIE, HELEN L. SPENCER, ALFRED HIATT, FIONA SOMERSET, HELEN COOPER, GEORGE KEISER, OLIVER S. PICKERING, JAMES SIMPSON, RICHARD BEADLE, ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE.

Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812201647
Total Pages : 359 pages
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Book Synopsis Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints by : Theresa Coletti

Download or read book Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints written by Theresa Coletti and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sinner-saint who embraced then renounced sexual and worldly pleasures; a woman who, through her attachment to Jesus, embodied both erotic and sacred power; a symbol of penance and an exemplar of contemplative and passionate devotion: perhaps no figure stood closer to the center of late medieval debates about the sources of spiritual authority and women's contribution to salvation history than did Mary Magdalene, and perhaps nowhere in later medieval England was cultural preoccupation with the Magdalene stronger than in fifteenth-century East Anglia. Looking to East Anglian texts including the N-Town Plays, The Book of Margery Kempe, The Revelations of Julian of Norwich, and Bokenham's Legend of Holy Women, Theresa Coletti explores how the gendered symbol of Mary Magdalene mediates tensions between masculine and feminine spiritual power, institutional and individual modes of religious expression, and authorized and unauthorized forms of revelation and sacred speech. Using the Digby play Mary Magdalene as her touchstone, Coletti engages a wide variety of textual and visual resources to make evident the discursive and material ties of East Anglian dramatic texts and feminine religion to broader traditions of cultural commentary and representation. In bringing the disciplinary perspectives of literary history and criticism, gender studies, and social and religious history to bear on specific local instances of dramatic practice, Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints highlights the relevance of Middle English dramatic discourse to the dynamic religious climate of late medieval England. In doing so, the book decisively challenges the marginalization of drama within medieval English studies, elucidates vernacular theater's kinship with influential late medieval religious texts and institutions, and articulates the changing possibilities for sacred representation in the decades before the Reformation.

Middle English Prose

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000022439
Total Pages : 185 pages
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Book Synopsis Middle English Prose by : A S G Edwards

Download or read book Middle English Prose written by A S G Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1981, Middle English Prose is an edited collection providing an index of research and scholarship on Middle English prose. The book is split into specific thematic areas of scholarship covering such areas as editorial technique and middle English mystical prose, as well as focusing more in detail on specific prose such as Nicholas Love’s Myrrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ. Each chapter contains a collection of useful sources and an editorial analysis and description on each source. Even today, this will provide a useful and valuable resource for researchers of the medieval period.

Medieval Rhetoric

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135874743
Total Pages : 271 pages
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Book Synopsis Medieval Rhetoric by : James Jerome Murphy

Download or read book Medieval Rhetoric written by James Jerome Murphy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1971 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Soul-Health

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Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786833328
Total Pages : 212 pages
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Book Synopsis Soul-Health by : Daniel McCann

Download or read book Soul-Health written by Daniel McCann and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. This study is a new, contextually sensitive methodology for pinpointing the emotional aspects of medieval texts. 2. It is a unique appraisal of the therapeutic significance of medieval religious literature: the largest body of writing in the period. 3. A move beyond the limitations of emotions studies and medical humanities, showing the interactions between literature and medicine in the period, and the importance of composite and layered emotional states.

The Cloud of Unknowing

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Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834823667
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing written by and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anonymous fourteenth-century text is the glory of English mysticism, and one of the most practical and useful guides to finding union with God ever written. Carmen Acevedo Butcher’s new translation is the first to bring the text into a modern English idiom—while remaining strictly faithful to the meaning of the original Middle English. The Cloud of Unknowing consists of a series of letters written by a monk to his student or disciple, instructing him (or her) in the way of Divine union. Its theology is presented in a way that is remarkably easy to understand, as well as practical, providing advice on prayer and contemplation that anyone can use. Previous translations of the Cloud have tended to veil its intimate, even friendly tone under medieval-sounding language. Carmen Butcher has boldly brought the text into language as appealing to modern ears as it was to its original readers more than five hundred years ago. Also included in the volume is the companion work attributed to the same anonymous author, The Book of Privy Counsel, which contains further advice for approaching God in a way that emphasizes real experience rather than human knowledge.

The Cloud of Unknowing

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Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809123322
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (233 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cloud of Unknowing by : James Walsh

Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing written by James Walsh and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an anonymous English monk during the late 14th century, The Cloud of Unknowing puts forth a method of contemplation that stresses the impotence of the understanding to break through the cloud of unknowing that separates God and humanity.

Loyola's Acts

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520320905
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Book Synopsis Loyola's Acts by : Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle

Download or read book Loyola's Acts written by Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

Mysticism in English Literature

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Total Pages : 186 pages
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Book Synopsis Mysticism in English Literature by : Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon

Download or read book Mysticism in English Literature written by Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medieval, Renaissance and Enlightenment Women Philosophers

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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789024735723
Total Pages : 396 pages
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Book Synopsis Medieval, Renaissance and Enlightenment Women Philosophers by : M.E. Waithe

Download or read book Medieval, Renaissance and Enlightenment Women Philosophers written by M.E. Waithe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1989-12-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: aspirations, the rise of western monasticism was the most note worthy event of the early centuries. The importance of monasteries cannot be overstressed as sources of spirituality, learning and auto nomy in the intensely masculinized, militarized feudal period. Drawing their members from the highest levels of society, women's monasteries provided an outlet for the energy and ambition of strong-willed women, as well as positions of considerable authority. Even from periods relatively inhospitable to learning of all kinds, the memory has been preserved of a good number of women of education. Their often considerable achievements and influence, however, generally lie outside even an expanded definition of philo sophy. Among the most notable foremothers of this early period were several whose efforts signal the possibility of later philosophical work. Radegund, in the sixth century, established one of the first Frankish convents, thereby laying the foundations for women's spiritual and intellectual development. From these beginnings, women's monasteries increased rapidly in both number and in fluence both on the continent and in Anglo-Saxon England. Hilda (d. 680) is well known as the powerful abbsess of the double monastery of Whitby. She was eager for knowledge, and five Eng lish bishops were educated under her tutelage. She is also accounted the patron of Caedmon, the first Anglo-Saxon poet of religious verse. The Anglo-Saxon nun Lioba was versed in the liberal arts as well as Scripture and canon law.

Balaam's Ass: Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812298349
Total Pages : 617 pages
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Book Synopsis Balaam's Ass: Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation by : Nicholas Watson

Download or read book Balaam's Ass: Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation written by Nicholas Watson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over seven hundred years, bodies of writing in vernacular languages served an indispensable role in the religious and intellectual culture of medieval Christian England, yet the character and extent of their importance have been insufficiently recognized. A longstanding identification of medieval western European Christianity with the Latin language and a lack of awareness about the sheer variety and quantity of vernacular religious writing from the English Middle Ages have hampered our understanding of the period, exercising a tenacious hold on much scholarship. Bringing together work across a range of disciplines, including literary study, Christian theology, social history, and the history of institutions, Balaam's Ass attempts the first comprehensive overview of religious writing in early England's three most important vernacular languages, Old English, Insular French, and Middle English, between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. Nicholas Watson argues not only that these texts comprise the oldest continuous tradition of European vernacular writing, but that they are essential to our understanding of how Christianity shaped and informed the lives of individuals, communities, and polities in the Middle Ages. This first of three volumes lays out the long post-Reformation history of the false claim that the medieval Catholic Church was hostile to the vernacular. It analyzes the complicated idea of the vernacular, a medieval innovation instantiated in a huge body of surviving vernacular religious texts. Finally, it focuses on the first, long generation of these writings, in Old English and early Middle English.

Aspects of Recusant History

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000098109
Total Pages : 365 pages
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Download or read book Aspects of Recusant History written by T.A. Birrell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Anthony Birrell (1924–2011) was a man of many parts. For most of his working life he was Professor of English and American Literature in the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, where he was famous for his lively, humoristic and thought-provoking lectures. He was the author of some very popular surveys of English Literature in Dutch, but – first and foremost – he was a bibliographer and a historian. His scholarly oeuvre is extensive and includes such highlights as English Monarchs and their Books (London 1986), a study of the Old Royal Library. However, many of his publications are hidden in occasional publications, periodicals and introductions to books no longer in print. That is why a – posthumous – selection of his bibliographical essays appeared in 2013, entitled Aspects of Book Culture (Ashgate 2013), and that is why it was decided to bring out a companion volume containing a selection of his essays in the field of recusant history. The present edition contains fourteen of Birrell’s articles published between 1950 and 2006. They all demonstrate his bibliographical expertise, his in-depth knowledge of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English Catholic history and his absolute determination to examine every scrap of archival material that might shed light on the episodes he was investigating. But, perhaps most important of all, he combined his scholarship with an intense interest in the individual lives that shape and are shaped by history, so the lasting impression that these articles will make is the sense of getting close to a whole series of personalities caught up in the turmoil of their time. Aspects of Recusant History was edited by Jos Blom, Frans Korsten and Frans Blom, all three former students of Tom Birrell and, both individually and collectively, authors and editors of a whole range of important book historical publications. (CS1092).

The Humane Medievalist

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Publisher : Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
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Download or read book The Humane Medievalist written by Jack Arthur Walter Bennett and published by Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. This book was released on 1982 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chaucer and the Imaginary World of Fame

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0859911624
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (599 download)

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Book Synopsis Chaucer and the Imaginary World of Fame by : Piero Boitani

Download or read book Chaucer and the Imaginary World of Fame written by Piero Boitani and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1984 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No description available.

Platonism and the English Imagination

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521403081
Total Pages : 377 pages
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Book Synopsis Platonism and the English Imagination by : Anna Baldwin

Download or read book Platonism and the English Imagination written by Anna Baldwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-24 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive overview of the influence of Platonism on the English literary tradition, showing how English writers, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Wordsworth, Yeats, Pound and Iris Murdoch, used Platonic themes and images within their own imaginative work.

Julian Among the Books

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443892513
Total Pages : 338 pages
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Book Synopsis Julian Among the Books by : Julia Bolton Holloway

Download or read book Julian Among the Books written by Julia Bolton Holloway and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julian among the Books: Julian of Norwich’s Theological Library brings together innovative research on aspects of the Showing of Love, especially the Pan-European background of its manuscripts, and their contexts, arguing for the concept of ‘Holy Conversations’ in a mise en abyme, where her readers, breaking the frame, participate in her contemplative visions. It discusses the three versions of her text, her knowledge of Hebrew, and her Benedictine context and its lectio divina, including textual and physical links with the Norwich monk, Cardinal Adam Easton, OSB, his collegial friendship with St Catherine of Siena and St Catherine of Sweden, and his support for St Birgitta of Sweden’s canonisation. The book also explores the library of texts of the ‘Friends of God’ movement, including the Mirror of Simple Souls of Marguerite Porete, presents the texts of Julian’s conversation with Margery Kemp, and discusses the exiled Brigittine and Benedictine nuns who continued to treasure and copy Julian’s text on the Continent following England’s Reformation. Scholarly methods used in this study include palaeography, codicology, iconography, reader reception, discourse on the Body, use of Hebrew, Greek and Latin, and the concepts of ‘Holy Conversation’ and ‘Textual Communities’. It gives much of the text of the Westminster Manuscript in translation, along with many quotations from the Westminster, Paris and Sloane manuscripts in their original layout and spelling. Illustrated with colour plates of the Julian manuscripts in the centrefold and other images, and black and white figures throughout the body of the text, it brings the reader as close as possible to Julian’s writing, her context, and her preservation by other women contemplatives throughout time.

Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137559489
Total Pages : 265 pages
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Book Synopsis Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern by : Daniel McCann

Download or read book Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern written by Daniel McCann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about an emotion constantly present in human culture and history: fear. It is also a book about literature and medicine, two areas of human endeavour that engage with fear most acutely. The essays in this volume explore fear in various literary and medical manifestations, in the Western World, from medieval to modern times. It is divided into two parts. The first part, Treating Fear, examines fear in medical history, and draws from theology, medicine, philosophy, and psychology, to offer an account of how fear shifts in Western understanding from the Middle Ages to Modern times. The second part, Writing Fear, explores fear as a rhetorical and literary force, offering an account of how it is used and evoked in distinct literary periods and texts. This coherent and fascinating collection will appeal to medical historians, literary critics, cultural theorists, medical humanities’ scholars and historians of the emotions.