Selections from English Wycliffite Writings - 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 Selections from English Wycliffite Writings write by Medieval Academy of America. This book was released on 1997-01-01. Selections from English Wycliffite Writings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works
The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works - 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 Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works write by . This book was released on 2001-08-30. The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
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.
Women's Writing in Middle English
Women's Writing in Middle English - 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 Women's Writing in Middle English write by Alexandra Barratt. This book was released on 2013-12-16. Women's Writing in Middle English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Medieval Texts in Context
Medieval Texts in Context - 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 Medieval Texts in Context write by Graham D. Caie. This book was released on 2008-04-01. Medieval Texts in Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
