Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain write by Anke Bernau. This book was released on 2015-05-01. Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection explores some of the many ways in which sanctity was closely intertwined with the development of literary strategies across a range of writings in late medieval Britain. Rather than looking for clues in religious practices in order to explain such changes, or reading literature for information about sanctity, these essays consider the ways in which sanctity - as concept and as theme - allowed writers to articulate and to develop further their 'craft' in specific ways. While scholars in recent years have turned once more to questions of literary form and technique, the kinds of writings considered in this collection - writings that were immensely popular in their own time - have not attracted the same amount of attention as more secular forms. The collection as a whole offers new insights for scholars interested in form, style, poetics, literary history and aesthetics, by considering sanctity first and foremost as literature
Fawty and Falce
Fawty and Falce - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fawty and Falce write by Benjamin Daniel Utter. This book was released on 2016. Fawty and Falce available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Middle English Devotional Compilations
Middle English Devotional Compilations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Middle English Devotional Compilations write by Diana Denissen. This book was released on 2019-10-15. Middle English Devotional Compilations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Middle English devotional compilations – consisting of a series of texts or extracts of texts that have intentionally been put together to constitute new and unified devotional texts – have often been approached as complex collections of source texts that need to be linked with their originals. This book argues that the study of compilations should move beyond the disentanglement of their sources. It approaches compiling as a literary activity and an active way of shaping the medieval text, with the aim to nuance scholarly discussion about compiling by putting greater emphasis on the literary instead of the technical aspects of compiling activity. In addition to describing the additions, omissions and other types of adaptations that compilers made to their source texts, Middle English Devotional Compilations highlights the nature and function of compiling activity in late medieval England, and examines three major but understudied Middle English devotional compilations in depth: The Pore Caitif, The Tretyse of Love and A Talkyng of the Love of God.
The church as sacred space in Middle English literature and culture
The church as sacred space in Middle English literature and culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The church as sacred space in Middle English literature and culture write by Laura Varnam. This book was released on 2018-01-11. The church as sacred space in Middle English literature and culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Wisdom's Journey
Wisdom's Journey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wisdom's Journey write by Steven Rozenski. This book was released on 2022-07-15. Wisdom's Journey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Steven Rozenski reopens old discussions and addresses new ones concerning late medieval devotional texts, particularly those showing continental and German influences. For many, Martin Luther’s translation of the Bible into German has come to define the spirit of the Protestant Reformation. But there existed a host of devotional and mystical writings translated into the vernacular that had more profound impacts upon lay religious practices and experiences well into the seventeenth century. Steven Rozenski explores this devotional and mystical literature in his focused study of English translations and adaptations of the works of Henry Suso, Catherine of Siena, and Thomas à Kempis, and the common devotional culture manifested in the work of Richard Rolle. In Wisdom’s Journey, Rozenski examines the forms and strategies of late medieval translation, of early modern engagement with Continental medieval devotion, and of the latter’s literary afterlives in English-speaking communities. Suso’s Rhineland mysticism, the book shows, found initial widespread influence, translation, and adaptation followed by a gradual decline; Catherine of Siena’s Italian spirituality saw continued use and retranslation in post-Reformation recusant communities paralleled by vehement denunciation by English Protestants; and Thomas à Kempis’s Imitation of Christ attained a remarkably consistent expansion of popularity, translation, and acceptance among both Catholic and Protestant readers well into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Wisdom’s Journey traces this path as it reshapes our understanding of English devotional and mystical literature from the 1400s to the 1600s, illuminating its wider European context before and after the Reformations of the sixteenth century. Written primarily for scholars in medieval mysticism, Reformation studies, and translation studies, the book will also appeal to readers interested in medieval studies and English literature more broadly.
