Book Description
The text is in Middle English with extensive supplemental notes that help to fully explain the context of each work. This new MART edition comes with a revised and updated bibliography by the editor.
Author : Medieval Academy of America
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 27,76 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802080455
The text is in Middle English with extensive supplemental notes that help to fully explain the context of each work. This new MART edition comes with a revised and updated bibliography by the editor.
Author : John Wycliff
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Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 1981
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File Size : 39,4 MB
Release : 1978
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Author : Anne Hudson
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Page : pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 1978
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Author : Hudson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,92 MB
Release : 1978-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521216678
Author : John Wycliffe
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Page : 634 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Sermons
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 24,75 MB
Release : 2001-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0141907592
Contains The Cloud of Unknowing, The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The Book of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle on Prayer. Against a tradition of devotional writings which focussed on knowing God through Christ's Passion and his humanity, these texts describe a transcendent God who exists beyond human knowledge and human language. These four texts are at the heart of medival mystical theology in their call for contemplation, calm, and above all, love, as the way to understand the Divine.
Author : Laura Varnam
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526121824
This book presents an exciting new approach to the medieval church by examining the role of literary texts, visual decorations, ritual performance and lived experience in the production of sanctity. The meaning of the church was intensely debated in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This book explores what was at stake not only for the church’s sanctity but for the identity of the parish community as a result. Focusing on pastoral material used to teach the laity, it shows how the church’s status as a sacred space at the heart of the congregation was dangerously – but profitably – dependent on lay practice. The sacred and profane were inextricably linked and, paradoxically, the church is shown to thrive on the sacrilegious challenge of lay misbehaviour and sin.
Author : Alexandra Barratt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 38,79 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317863267
Women's writing in any period remains of critical concern, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Alexandra Barratt's edition offers a wide range of texts from the period 1300-1500, including: Original texts written by women in the Middle Ages Texts translated by women in the Middle Ages Prayers, meditations, scriptural comment, and accounts of religious experiences Educational writings Romance, poetry Each poem is given a headnote, giving details of composition, manuscript and sources. Full on-page annotation is provided giving details of allusions to contemporary religious, historical and social issues. A general introduction gives context to all the pieces and provides a penetrating account of the role of women in a burgeoning society of literary and cultural transmission.
Author : Graham D. Caie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134238460
This collection of essays by leading experts in manuscript studies sheds new light on ways to approach medieval texts in their manuscript context. Each contribution provides groundbreaking insight into the field of medieval textual culture, demonstrating the various interconnections between medieval material and literary traditions. The contributors’ work aids reconstruction of the period’s writing practices, as contextual factors surrounding the texts provide clues to the ‘manuscript experience’. Topics such as scribal practice and textual providence, glosses, rubrics, page lay-out, and even page ruling, are addressed in a manner illustrative and suggestive of textual practice of the time, while the volume further considers the interface between the manuscript and early textual communities. Looking at medieval inventories of books no longer extant, and addressing questions such as ownership, reading practices and textual production, Medieval Texts in Context addresses the fundamental interpretative issue of how scribe-editors worked with an eye to their intended audience. An understanding of the world inhabited by the scribal community is made use of to illuminate the rationale behind the manufacture of devotional texts. The combination of approaches to the medieval vernacular manuscript presented in this volume is unique, marking a major, innovative contribution to manuscript studies.