The Middle English Mystics

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429560532
Total Pages : 222 pages
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Book Synopsis The Middle English Mystics by : Wolfgang Riehle

Download or read book The Middle English Mystics written by Wolfgang Riehle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as an English translation in 1981, The Middle English Mystics is a crucial contribution to the study of the literature of English mysticism. This book surveys and analyses the language of metaphor in the writings of such mystics as Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, Julian of Norwich, and in such anonymous works as The Cloud of Unknowing and the Ancrene Wisse. The main emphasis of this comparative and stylistic study is not theological but rather the means by which theological concepts are communicated through language. The book sets the English mystics in perspective by establishing their place in the European mystical movement of the Middle Ages. It shows how intricate the relationship between English, and continental mysticism really is. The book suggests that there is clear links between English and German female mysticism, yet the mysticism is in the main due not so much to specific influences as to the common background of Christian theology and mysticism.

The Revelations of Margery Kempe

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004089631
Total Pages : 146 pages
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Book Synopsis The Revelations of Margery Kempe by : John C. Hirsh

Download or read book The Revelations of Margery Kempe written by John C. Hirsh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191572594
Total Pages : 792 pages
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English by : Elaine Treharne

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English written by Elaine Treharne and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of studying them (the Sociology of the Text, performance studies) have emerged. This has brought fresh vigour and impetus to medieval studies, and impacted significantly on cognate periods and areas. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings together the insights of these new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today. It also returns to first principles in posing fundamental questions about the nature, scope, and significance of the discipline, and the directions that it might take in the next decade. The Handbook contains 44 newly commissioned essays from both world-leading scholars and exciting new scholarly voices. Topics covered range from the canonical genres of Saints' lives, sermons, romance, lyric poetry, and heroic poetry; major themes including monstrosity and marginality, patronage and literary politics, manuscript studies and vernacularity are investigated; and there are close readings of key texts, such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and key authors from Ælfric to Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.

Women Medievalists and the Academy

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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299207502
Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Women Medievalists and the Academy written by Jane Chance and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pioneering. . . . An important and timely collection that profiles the lives and professional careers of women medievalists in the last centuries."--Maureen Mazzaoui, University of Wisconsin-Madison

English and International

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521343755
Total Pages : 410 pages
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Book Synopsis English and International by : Elizabeth Salter

Download or read book English and International written by Elizabeth Salter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-08-26 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Salter's principal works and essays are collected here in one volume.

Middle English Prose

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
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Book Synopsis Middle English Prose by : Anthony Stockwell Garfield Edwards

Download or read book Middle English Prose written by Anthony Stockwell Garfield Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to provide an authoritative duie to a number of important authors and genres of Middle English prose.

Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027104022X
Total Pages : 241 pages
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Book Synopsis Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions by : Lynn Staley

Download or read book Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions written by Lynn Staley and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature

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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1296 pages
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Book Synopsis The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature by : George Watson

Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature written by George Watson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1974 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521200042
Total Pages : 1322 pages
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Book Synopsis The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660 by : George Watson

Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660 written by George Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974-08-29 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429588925
Total Pages : 775 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ by : Nicholas Love

Download or read book The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ written by Nicholas Love and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 2005: At a time when the church sought to control and constrain lay access to vernacular and paramystical texts, the author’s translation, sanctioned by the Archbishop of Canterbury, met a pressing need for religious guidance among lay people. It became one of the most copied works of the fifteenth century.

Mystic and Pilgrim

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801498954
Total Pages : 252 pages
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Book Synopsis Mystic and Pilgrim by : Clarissa W. Atkinson

Download or read book Mystic and Pilgrim written by Clarissa W. Atkinson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the medieval English religious pilgrim Margery Kempe and a social and cultural history of her world.

Women Medievalists and the Academy, Volume 2

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666754544
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Book Synopsis Women Medievalists and the Academy, Volume 2 by : Jane Chance

Download or read book Women Medievalists and the Academy, Volume 2 written by Jane Chance and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long overlooked in standard reference works, pioneering women medievalists finally receive their due in Women Medievalists and the Academy. This comprehensive edited volume brings to life a diverse collection of inspiring figures through memoirs, biographical essays, and interviews. Covering many different nationalities and academic disciplines—including literature, philology, history, archaeology, art history, theology or religious studies, and philosophy—each essay delves into one woman’s life, intellectual contributions, and efforts to succeed in a male-dominated field. Together, these extraordinary personal histories constitute a new standard reference that speaks to a growing interest in women’s roles in the development of scholarship and the academy. The collection begins in the eighteenth century with Elizabeth Elstob and continues to the present, and includes—among more than seventy profiles—such important figures as Anna Jameson, Lina Eckenstein, Georgiana Goddard King, Eileen Power, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dorothy Whitelock, Susan Mosher Stuard, Marcia Colish, and Caroline Walker Bynum, among others.

The Latin Passion Play

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873950459
Total Pages : 258 pages
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Download or read book The Latin Passion Play written by Sandro Sticca and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first comprehensive study of the Latin Passion play, Professor Sticca examines the medieval liturgical ceremonies commemorating the events in Christ's Passion and traces their gradual change in character from the contemplative to the dramatic. The author shows that while Christ's Passion became increasingly popular as one of the sacred mysteries beginning in the tenth century, new forces that allowed a more eloquent and humane visualization and description of Christ's anguish first appeared in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Professor Sticca analyzes the earliest extant Latin Passion play, the twelfth-century Montecassino codex, and compares it with other Latin and vernacular Passion plays. He refutes the traditional view that the Planctus Mariae is the germinal point of the Latin Passion play and then offers a new theory of its inception. As a literary form, the Latin Passion play appears to Professor Sticca as a creation of the Montecassino monastic circle which was inspired by the liturgical services of Good Friday and the Gospel accounts. Particularly influential also were three themes that developed in the eleventh century: in liturgy, a concentration on Christocentric piety; in art, a more humanistic treatment of Christ; and in literature, a consideration of the scenes of the Passion as dramatic and human episodes. In the course of this investigation, Professor Sticca also reappraises traditional views of the origin of the medieval liturgical drama, indicating that it should not be traced exclusively to the tropes from the schools of St. Gall and St. Martial of Limoges, but rather to a number of sources.

The Siege of Jerusalem

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780197223239
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (232 download)

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Book Synopsis The Siege of Jerusalem by : Ralph Hanna

Download or read book The Siege of Jerusalem written by Ralph Hanna and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new critical edition of the most widely dispersed and popular Middle English alliterative poems apart from Piers Plowman. It contains a new critical text, based upon all the surviving manuscripts. There is full discussion of the textual relations, and the editorial methods best suited to presenting a text extant in many copies. There are full manuscript descriptions with discussions of sources and possible authorship.

Nicholas Love at Waseda

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Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859915007
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Nicholas Love at Waseda written by Shoichi Oguro and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 1997 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on text, manuscript and context of Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ.

Julian of Norwich's Showings

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400863910
Total Pages : 227 pages
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Download or read book Julian of Norwich's Showings written by Denise Nowakowski Baker and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first woman known to have written in English, the fourteenth-century mystic Julian of Norwich has inspired generations of Christians with her reflections on the "motherhood" of Jesus, and her assurance that, despite evil, "all shall be well." In this book, Denise Baker reconsiders Julian not only as an eloquent and profound visionary but also as an evolving, sophisticated theologian of great originality. Focusing on Julian's Book of Showings, in which the author records a series of revelations she received during a critical illness in May 1373, Baker provides the first historical assessment of Julian's significance as a writer and thinker. Inscribing her visionary experience in the short version of her Showings, Julian contemplated the revelations for two decades before she achieved the understanding that enabled her to complete the long text. Baker first traces the genesis of Julian's visionary experience to the practice of affective piety, such as meditations on the life of Christ and, in the arts, a depiction of a suffering rather than triumphant Christ on the cross. Julian's innovations become apparent in the long text. By combining late medieval theology of salvation with the mystics' teachings on the nature of humankind, she arrives at compassionate, optimistic, and liberating conclusions regarding the presence of evil in the world, God's attitude toward sinners, and the possibility of universal salvation. She concludes her theodicy by comparing the connections between the Trinity and humankind to familial relationships, emphasizing Jesus' role as mother. Julian's strategy of revisions and her artistry come under scrutiny in the final chapter of this book, as Baker demonstrates how this writer brings her readers to reenact her own struggle in understanding the revelations. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Chaucer's Boece and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0859913686
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Boece and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius written by Alastair J. Minnis and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1993 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer's translation of Boethius' work is related to medieval intellectual culture, with attention to Trevet's Boethius commentary. This collection seeks to locate the Boece within the medievaltradition of the academic study and translation of the Consolatiophilosophiae, thereby relating the work to the intellectual culturewhich made it possible.It begins with the fullest study yet undertakenof the Boethius commentary of Nicholas Trevet, this being a majorsource of the Boece. There follow editions and translationsof the major passages in Trevet's commentary whereNeoplatonic issuesare confronted, then Chaucer's debt to Trevet is assessed in a detailedreview. The many choices which faced Chaucer as a translator are indicated and the Boeceis placed in a long line of interpreters of Boethius in which both Latin commentators and vernacular translators played their parts. Finally, a view is offered of the Boece as anexample of late-medieval `academic translation': if the Boeceis assigned to this genre, it may be judged a considerable success.