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Syon Abbey and Its Books

Author : Edward Alexander Jones
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843835479
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Syon Abbey and Its Books written by Edward Alexander Jones and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the turbulent history of Syon Abbey, focussing on the role played by reading and writing in constructing its identity and experience. Founded in 1415, the double monastery of Syon Abbey was the only English example of the order established by the fourteenth-century mystic St Bridget of Sweden. After its dispersal at the Dissolution, the community survived in exile and was briefly restored during the reign of Mary I; but with the accession of Elizabeth I, some of the nuns and brothers once again sought refuge on the Continent, first in the Netherlands and later in Lisbon. This volumeof essays traces the fortunes of Syon Abbey and the Bridgettine order between 1400 and 1700, examining the various ways in which reading and writing shaped its identity and defined its experience, and exploring the interconnections between late medieval and post-Reformation monastic history and the rapidly evolving world of communication, learning, and books. They extend our understanding of religious culture and institutions on the eve of the Reformationand the impulses that inspired initiatives for early modern Catholic renewal, and also illuminate the spread of literacy and the gradual and uneven transition from manuscript to print between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries. In the process, the volume engages with larger questions about the origins and consequences of religious, intellectual and cultural change in late medieval and early modern England. E.A. JONES is Senior Lecturerin English, University of Exeter; ALEXANDRA WALSHAM is Professor of Modern History and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Contributors: E.A. Jones, Alexandra Walsham, Peter Cunich, Virginia Bainbridge, Vincent Gillespie, C. Annette Grise, Claire Walker, Caroline Bowden, Claes Gejrot, Ann Hutchison

The Birgittines of Syon Abbey

Author : Susan Powell
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503532356
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book The Birgittines of Syon Abbey written by Susan Powell and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the Birgittine Order of nuns as producers and readers of texts in Britain from the fifteenth to the early sixteenth century, through an analysis of medieval manuscripts and early printed books. It highlights the community's response to teachings of St Birgitta, the dissemination of Birgittine texts, and Lady Margaret Beaufort's role as intermediary between Syon and the outside world.

Reforming Printing

Author : Alexandra da Costa
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199653569
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Reforming Printing written by Alexandra da Costa and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text investigates how Syon Abbey responded to the religious turbulence of the 1520s and 1530s. It examines the 11 books 3 brothers had printed during this period and argues that the Bridgettines used vernacular printing to engage with religious and political developments that threatened their understanding of orthodox faith.

Syon Breviary Popular Edition

Author : Anne Sister Smith
Publisher : Bridgettine Sisters of Syon
ISBN 13 : 9780993034602
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Syon Breviary Popular Edition written by Anne Sister Smith and published by Bridgettine Sisters of Syon. This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Saint Bride and Her Book

Author : Saint Bridget (of Sweden)
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859915892
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Saint Bride and Her Book written by Saint Bridget (of Sweden) and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2000 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992.

Reading Families

Author : Rebecca Krug
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501731823
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Reading Families written by Rebecca Krug and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca Krug argues that in the later Middle Ages, people defined themselves in terms of family relationships but increasingly saw their social circumstances as being connected to the written word. Complex family dynamics and social configurations motivated women to engage in text-based activities. Although not all or even the majority of women could read and write, it became natural for women to think of writing as a part of everyday life.Reading Families looks at the literate practice of two individual women, Margaret Paston and Margaret Beaufort, and of two communities in which women were central, the Norwich Lollards and the Bridgettines at Syon Abbey. The book begins with Paston's letters, which were written at her husband's request, and ends with devotional texts that describe the spiritual daughterhood of the Bridgettine readers.Scholars often assume that medieval women's participation in literate culture constituted a rejection of patriarchal authority. Krug maintains, however, that for most women learning to engage with the written word served as a practical response to social changes and was not necessarily a revolutionary act.

Beyond the Cloister

Author : Jenna Lay
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812293029
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Cloister written by Jenna Lay and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representations of Catholic women appear with surprising frequency in the literature of post-Reformation England. Playwrights and poets from William Shakespeare to Andrew Marvell invoke the figure of the nun to powerful and often perplexing effect, and works that never directly address female Catholicism, such as Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander, share a discourse with contemporary debates regarding the status of recusant women. Catholic Englishwomen, whether living in convents on the European continent or as recusants in their own country, contributed to these debates, but even as their writings addressed the central religious and political issues of their time, their contributions were effaced and now are largely forgotten. Exploring the writings of Catholic women in conversation with those of Shakespeare, Marvell, Marlowe, Donne, and other canonical authors, Beyond the Cloister shows that nuns and recusants were centrally important to the development of English literature. The defining narratives of early modern England cast nuns as the relics of an unenlightened past and equated Catholic femininity with the dangerous charms of the Whore of Babylon. With careful attention to literary figurations of Catholic femininity and to the vibrant manuscript culture in the English convents, Jenna Lay reveals a far more complex reality. Through their use of tropes, figures, generic patterns, and literary allusions, Catholic women produced politically incendiary and rhetorically powerful lyrics, prayers, polemics, and hagiographies. Drawing on the insights of religious studies, historical formalism, and feminist criticism, Beyond the Cloister offers a reassessment of crucial decades in the development of English literary history.

Beyond the Cloister

Author : Jenna Lay
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812248384
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Cloister written by Jenna Lay and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Cloister reveals the literary significance of manuscripts and printed books written by and about post-Reformation Catholic Englishwomen, offering a reassessment of crucial decades in the development of English literary history.

Looking in Holy Books

Author : Vincent Gillespie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780708318584
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Looking in Holy Books written by Vincent Gillespie and published by . This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume suggests new ways of reading and thinking about the religious culture of late-medieval England. It explores an unusually wide spectrum of Latin and vernacular religious texts, from catechetic handbooks to descriptions of mystical experience, and pays particular attention to the transmission and reception of these texts. The book collects together some of Vincent Gillespie's most influential and important articles from the last twenty-five years. In addition, the author offers a substantial introduction and commentary, which looks at changes in the field, as well as suggesting further reading and areas for future research. The first section "What to Read" discusses lay access to devotional materials; the second, "How to Read," looks at vernacular texts and the modes of reading those texts facilitate and encourage, while section three, "Writing the Ineffable," considers mystical writing's affective and imaginative engagement with the ineffable.

Showing of Love

Author : Julian (of Norwich)
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814651698
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Showing of Love written by Julian (of Norwich) and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Showing of Love, Julia Bolton Holloway provides a complete translation of Julian of Norwich's ground-breaking text, opening windows of insight into her medieval world. As a female mystic and theologian who was uniquely recognized (in a time when most women were not) for her holiness, Julian of Norwich also came to be known as a catechist, prophet, and spiritual director. Showing of Love records her own healing encounter with divine love and has for many centuries been a source of healing and inspiration for others. Readers of Julian's work find her belief that God sits in our soul as a fair city to be of profound value. That city is every city, Mary its queen, Christ its king. Julian offers these layers in rich text and variant readings. Julian dedicated years of her life to shaping Showing of Love, at the end rewriting it to preserve it from censorship. The anchoress lived in St. Julian's churchyard in Norwich. Her text was saved from destruction by nuns in Brigittine and Benedictine convents, first in England, then in exile after the Reformation. Julian's writings were later published by the Benedictines in 1670. They reveal her strong links with Benedict that continue to have lasting value for readers today. Includes two-color ink on inside pages. Julia Bolton Holloway, PhD, is a vowed hermit living in Florence, Italy. She has published seventeen other works on important historical figures.

The English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800

Author : James E. Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317034023
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800 written by James E. Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1598, the first English convent was established in Brussels and was to be followed by a further 21 enclosed convents across Flanders and France with more than 4,000 women entering them over a 200-year period. In theory they were cut off from the outside world; however, in practice the nuns were not isolated and their contacts and networks spread widely, and their communal culture was sophisticated. Not only were the nuns influenced by continental intellectual culture but they in turn contributed to a developing English Catholic identity moulded by their experience in exile. During this time, these nuns and the Mary Ward sisters found outlets for female expression often unavailable to their secular counterparts, until the French Revolution and its associated violence forced the convents back to England. This interdisciplinary collection demonstrates the cultural importance of the English convents in exile from 1600 to 1800 and is the first collection to focus solely on the English convents.

A Companion to Birgitta of Sweden

Author : Maria H. Oen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004399879
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Birgitta of Sweden written by Maria H. Oen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Birgitta of Sweden (d. 1373) is one of the most celebrated female visionaries and authors of the Middle Ages and a central figure in the history of late-medieval religion. An aristocratic widow, Birgitta left her native country in 1349 and settled in Rome, where she established herself as an outspoken critic of the Avignon Papacy and an advocate of spiritual and ecclesiastical reform. Birgitta founded a new monastic order, and her major work, The Heavenly Book of Revelations, circulated widely in a variety of monastic, reformist, and intellectual milieus following her death. This volume offers an introduction to the saint and the reception of her work written by experts from various disciplines. In addition to acquainting the reader with the state of the scholarship, the study also presents fresh interpretations and new perspectives on Birgitta and the sources for her life and writings. Contributors: Roger Andersson, Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Unn Falkeid, Anna Fredriksson, Birgitta Fritz, Ann M. Hutchison, F. Thomas Luongo, Maria H. Oen, Anders Piltz, and Pavlína Rychterová.

Lists and Indexes

Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lists and Indexes written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558

Author : Vincent Gillespie
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843843633
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558 written by Vincent Gillespie and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First full-scale guide to the origins and development of the early printed book, and the issues associated with it.

The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England

Author : Edward Alexander Jones
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843840077
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England written by Edward Alexander Jones and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The regular meetings resumed, here with particular focus on Julian of Norwich, and Syon Abbey and the Bridgettines.

Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions

Author : Jennifer N. Brown
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1903153964
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions written by Jennifer N. Brown and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays exploring the great religious and devotional works of the Middle Ages in their manuscript and other contexts.

Looking Inward

Author : Jennifer Bryan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812201493
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Looking Inward written by Jennifer Bryan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You must see yourself." The exhortation was increasingly familiar to English men and women in the two centuries before the Reformation. They encountered it repeatedly in their devotional books, the popular guides to spiritual self-improvement that were reaching an ever-growing readership at the end of the Middle Ages. But what did it mean to see oneself? What was the nature of the self to be envisioned, and what eyes and mirrors were needed to see and know it properly? Looking Inward traces a complex network of answers to such questions, exploring how English readers between 1350 and 1550 learned to envision, examine, and change themselves in the mirrors of devotional literature. By all accounts, it was the most popular literature of the period. With literacy on the rise, an outpouring of translations and adaptations flowed across traditional boundaries between religious and lay, and between female and male, audiences. As forms of piety changed, as social categories became increasingly porous, and as the heart became an increasingly privileged and contested location, the growth of devotional reading created a crucial arena for the making of literate subjectivities. The models of private reading and self-reflection constructed therein would have important implications, not only for English spirituality, but for social, political, and poetic identities, up to the Reformation and beyond. In Looking Inward, Bryan examines a wide range of devotional and secular texts, from works by Walter Hilton, Julian of Norwich, and Thomas Hoccleve to neglected translations like The Chastising of God's Children and The Pricking of Love. She explores the models of identification and imitation through which they sought to reach the inmost selves of their readers, and the scripts for spiritual desire that they offered for the cultivation of the heart. Illuminating the psychological paradigms at the heart of the genre, Bryan provides fresh insights into how late medieval men and women sought to know, labor in, and profit themselves by means of books.