Nicholas Love's Mirror and Late Medieval Devotio-Literary Culture
Title | Nicholas Love's Mirror and Late Medieval Devotio-Literary Culture PDF eBook |
Author | David J. Falls |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2016-03-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317087542 |
Surviving in 59 complete manuscript versions, few English texts of the late medieval period seem to have achieved the popularity of Nicholas Love's fifteenth-century translation and adaptation of the Latin Meditationes Vitae Christi - The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. The Mirror has received surprisingly little scholarly attention and is often contextualized in terms of its role in the theological conflict between English ecclesiastical orthodoxy and the teachings of heresiarch John Wycliff. David Falls presents a new account of the text's history which de-centralises, but does not disregard, the influence of the Wycliffite controversy. Falls interrogates preconceptions and investigates new possibilities for understanding the composition, circulation, function and use of Love's Mirror by examining both the textual modifications and additions made by Love in his adaptation of the Latin, and places these alterations in context by examining individual copies of the Mirror. The manuscript copies are read as both sites of literary consumption and nexuses of textual transition, demonstrating that it was Love's ability to inscribe his work with "functional diversity" which explains the Mirror's popularity. This book presents a nuanced picture not only of the Mirror's production, circulation and function, but also the dynamic and flourishing devotio-literary culture of late medieval England in which Love's text operated.
Nicholas Love's Mirror and Late Medieval Devotio-Literary Culture
Title | Nicholas Love's Mirror and Late Medieval Devotio-Literary Culture PDF eBook |
Author | David J. Falls |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2019-12-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780367880002 |
Surviving in 59 complete manuscript versions, few English texts of the late medieval period seem to have achieved the popularity of Nicholas Love's fifteenth-century translation and adaptation of the Latin Meditationes Vitae Christi - The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. The Mirror has received surprisingly little scholarly attention and is often contextualized in terms of its role in the theological conflict between English ecclesiastical orthodoxy and the teachings of heresiarch John Wycliff. David Falls presents a new account of the text's history which de-centralises, but does not disregard, the influence of the Wycliffite controversy. Falls interrogates preconceptions and investigates new possibilities for understanding the composition, circulation, function and use of Love's Mirror by examining both the textual modifications and additions made by Love in his adaptation of the Latin, and places these alterations in context by examining individual copies of the Mirror. The manuscript copies are read as both sites of literary consumption and nexuses of textual transition, demonstrating that it was Love's ability to inscribe his work with "functional diversity" which explains the Mirror's popularity. This book presents a nuanced picture not only of the Mirror's production, circulation and function, but also the dynamic and flourishing devotio-literary culture of late medieval England in which Love's text operated.
Imagining Jesus Christ in Middle English Literature, 1275–1475
Title | Imagining Jesus Christ in Middle English Literature, 1275–1475 PDF eBook |
Author | Theresa Tinkle |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 262 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 303165076X |
Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions
Title | Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer N. Brown |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 411 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1903153964 |
Essays exploring the great religious and devotional works of the Middle Ages in their manuscript and other contexts.
Cushions, Kitchens and Christ
Title | Cushions, Kitchens and Christ PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Campion |
Publisher | University of Wales Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2022-01-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1786838311 |
This book represents the first full-length study of the prevalence of domestic imagery in late medieval religious literature. It examines as yet understudied patterns of household imagery and allegory across four fifteenth-century spiritual texts, all of which are Middle English translations of earlier Latin works. These texts are drawn from a range of popular genres of medieval religious writing, including the spiritual guidance text, Life of Christ, and collection of revelations received by visionary women. All of the texts discussed in this book have identifiable late medieval readers, which further enables a discussion of the way in which these book users might have responded to the domestic images in each one. This is a hugely important area of enquiry, as the literal late medieval household was becoming increasingly culturally important during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and these texts’ frequent recourse to domestic imagery would have been especially pertinent.
The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation
Title | The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Saetveit Miles |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1843845342 |
An overlooked aspect of the iconography of the Annunciation investigated - Mary's book.
Form and Foreskin
Title | Form and Foreskin PDF eBook |
Author | A. W. Strouse |
Publisher | Fordham Univ Press |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2021-04-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0823294773 |
Why did Saint Augustine ask God to “circumcise [his] lips”? Why does Sir Gawain cut off the Green Knight’s head on the Feast of the Circumcision? Is Chaucer’s Wife of Bath actually—as an early glossator figures her—a foreskin? And why did Ezra Pound claim that he had incubated The Waste Land inside of his uncut member? In this little book, A. W. Strouse excavates a poetics of the foreskin, uncovering how Patristic theologies of circumcision came to structure medieval European literary aesthetics. Following the writings of Saint Paul, “circumcision” and “uncircumcision” become key terms for theorizing language—especially the dichotomies between the mere text and its extended exegesis, between brevity and longwindedness, between wisdom and folly. Form and Foreskin looks to three works: a peculiar story by Saint Augustine about a boy with the long foreskin; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. By examining literary scenes of cutting and stretching, Strouse exposes how Patristic treatments of circumcision queerly govern medieval poetics.