Fifteenth-Century Lives
Title | Fifteenth-Century Lives PDF eBook |
Author | Karen A. Winstead |
Publisher | University of Notre Dame Pess |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2020-11-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0268108552 |
In Fifteenth-Century Lives, Karen A. Winstead identifies and explores a major shift in the writing of Middle English saints’ lives. As she demonstrates, starting in the 1410s and ’20s, hagiography became more character-oriented, more morally complex, more deeply embedded in history, and more politically and socially engaged. Further, it became more self-consciously literary and began to feature women more prominently—and not only traditional virgin martyrs but also matrons and contemporary holy women. Winstead shows that this literature placed a premium on scholarship and teaching. Hagiography celebrated educators and scholars to a greater extent than ever before and became a vehicle for educating readers about Christian dogma. Focusing both on authors well known, such as John Lydgate and Margery Kempe, and on others less known, such as Osbern Bokenham and John Capgrave, Winstead argues that the values promoted by fifteenth-century hagiography helped to shape the reformist impulses that eventually produced the Reformation. Moreover, these values continued to influence post-Reformation hagiography, both Protestant and Catholic, well into the seventeenth century. In exploring these trends in fifteenth-century hagiography, identifying the factors that contributed to their emergence, and tracing their influence in later periods, Fifteenth-Century Lives marks an important contribution to revisionary scholarship on fifteenth-century literature. It will appeal to students and scholars of late medieval English literature and late medieval religion.
Fifteenth-Century Lives
Title | Fifteenth-Century Lives PDF eBook |
Author | Karen A. Winstead |
Publisher | |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Christian hagiography |
ISBN | 9780268108564 |
In Fifteenth-Century Lives, Karen A. Winstead identifies and explores a major shift in the writing of Middle English saints' lives. As she demonstrates, starting in the 1410s and '20s, hagiography became more character-oriented, more morally complex, more deeply embedded in history, and more politically and socially engaged. Further, it became more self-consciously literary and began to feature women more prominently--and not only traditional virgin martyrs but also matrons and contemporary holy women. Winstead shows that this literature placed a premium on scholarship and teaching. Hagiography celebrated educators and scholars more than ever before and became a vehicle for educating readers about Christian dogma. Focusing both on authors well known, such as John Lydgate and Margery Kempe, and on others less known, such as Osbern Bokenham and John Capgrave, Winstead argues that the values promoted by fifteenth-century hagiography helped to shape the reformist impulses that eventually produced the Reformation. Moreover, these values continued to influence post-Reformation hagiography, both Protestant and Catholic, well into the seventeenth century.
Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books
Title | Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Connolly |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2019-01-17 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 1108426778 |
Explores the reception of fifteenth-century English manuscripts and two generations of a Tudor family who owned and read them.
A Late Fifteenth-century Commonplace Book
Title | A Late Fifteenth-century Commonplace Book PDF eBook |
Author | Ariane Lainé |
Publisher | |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Commonplace books |
ISBN | 9782503582917 |
This edition presents the full text of a personal collection of temporale Middle-English sermons, compiled by a parish priest for his own use. It also includes the notes and fragments of sermons or exempla found at the beginning of the manuscript with a purpose of giving insight into the way a parish priest would compile materials. This manuscript has attracted attention because it perserves versions of these sermons' early stages. This edition is therefore complementary to editions of later versions of the same sermons. The introduction provides a discussion of these sermons' textual history and the circumstances in which they were possibly preached. This volume also includes explanatory notes and a glossary.
Sephardic Book Art of the 15th Century
Title | Sephardic Book Art of the 15th Century PDF eBook |
Author | Luís Urbano Afonso |
Publisher | Harvey Miller |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2020-06-25 |
Genre | Bible |
ISBN | 9781909400597 |
The current volume presents ten different studies dealing with the final stages of Hebrew book art production in medieval Iberia. Ranging from the Farhi Codex, copied and illuminated in the late 14th century, to the Philadelphia Bible, copied and illuminated in Lisbon in 1496, this volume discusses a wide scope of topics related with the production, consumption and circulation of medieval decorated Hebrew manuscripts. Among the issues discussed in this volume we highlight the role played by three distinct artistic languages (Mudejar, Late Gothic and Renaissance) in the shapping of 15th century Sephardic illumination, the codicological specificity of some solutions in terms of layout and the relation between the layout of these manuscripts and Hebrew incunabula, the use of geometric decoration in scientific diagrams, or the afterlife of these manuscripts in Europe and Asia following the expulsion of the Jews from Iberia.
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy
Title | Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Baxandall |
Publisher | Oxford Paperbacks |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780192821447 |
An introduction to 15th century Italian painting and the social history behind it, arguing that the two are interlinked and that the conditions of the time helped fashion distinctive elements in the painter's style.
The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music
Title | The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Maria Busse Berger |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 1058 |
Release | 2015-07-16 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1316298299 |
Through forty-five creative and concise essays by an international team of authors, this Cambridge History brings the fifteenth century to life for both specialists and general readers. Combining the best qualities of survey texts and scholarly literature, the book offers authoritative overviews of central composers, genres, and musical institutions as well as new and provocative reassessments of the work concept, the boundaries between improvisation and composition, the practice of listening, humanism, musical borrowing, and other topics. Multidisciplinary studies of music and architecture, feasting, poetry, politics, liturgy, and religious devotion rub shoulders with studies of compositional techniques, musical notation, music manuscripts, and reception history. Generously illustrated with figures and examples, this volume paints a vibrant picture of musical life in a period characterized by extraordinary innovation and artistic achievement.