The Birgittines of Syon Abbey - 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 Birgittines of Syon Abbey write by Susan Powell. This book was released on 2017. The Birgittines of Syon Abbey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume examines the Birgittine Order of nuns as producers and readers of texts in Britain from the fifteenth to the early sixteenth century, through an analysis of medieval manuscripts and early printed books. It highlights the community's response to teachings of St Birgitta, the dissemination of Birgittine texts, and Lady Margaret Beaufort's role as intermediary between Syon and the outside world.
A Companion to Birgitta of Sweden
A Companion to Birgitta of Sweden - 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 A Companion to Birgitta of Sweden write by Maria H. Oen. This book was released on 2019-06-07. A Companion to Birgitta of Sweden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ten scholars offer a comprehensive introduction to one of the most celebrated visionaries of the Middle Ages. The essays focus on Birgitta as an author, the reception of her writings, and the history of her religious order.
Staging Contemplation
Staging Contemplation - 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 Staging Contemplation write by Eleanor Johnson. This book was released on 2018-08-17. Staging Contemplation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What does it mean to contemplate? In the Middle Ages, more than merely thinking with intensity, it was a religious practice entailing utter receptiveness to the divine presence. Contemplation is widely considered by scholars today to have been the highest form of devotional prayer, a rarified means of experiencing God practiced only by the most devout of monks, nuns, and mystics. Yet, in this groundbreaking new book, Eleanor Johnson argues instead for the pervasiveness and accessibility of contemplative works to medieval audiences. By drawing together ostensibly diverse literary genres—devotional prose, allegorical poetry, cycle dramas, and morality plays—Staging Contemplation paints late Middle English contemplative writing as a broad genre that operated collectively and experientially as much as through radical individual disengagement from the world. Johnson further argues that the contemplative genre played a crucial role in the exploration of the English vernacular as a literary and theological language in the fifteenth century, tracing how these works engaged modes of disfluency—from strained syntax and aberrant grammar, to puns, slang, code-switching, and laughter—to explore the limits, norms, and potential of English as a devotional language. Full of virtuoso close readings, this book demonstrates a sustained interest in how poetic language can foster a participatory experience of likeness to God among lay and devotional audiences alike.
Moral Combat
Moral Combat - 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 Moral Combat write by Gerry Milligan. This book was released on 2018-01-01. Moral Combat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Moral Combat explores dozens of primary texts to ask why women's militarism became one of the central discourses of sixteenth-century Italy.
The Making of the Vernon Manuscript
The Making of the Vernon Manuscript - 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 Making of the Vernon Manuscript write by Wendy Scase. This book was released on 2013. The Making of the Vernon Manuscript available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume addresses important questions in late medieval book production and the history of the medieval book through original and substantial studies of one of the most remarkable surviving examples. The Vernon Manuscript, carefully copied and lavishly decorated around 1390-1400 for pious users, is famous as the largest and arguably the most important Middle English anthology. Its sheer size and conservation concerns mean that up to now it has been little studied as a book. The essays in this volume exploit for the first time the mass of new data generated by the Vernon Manuscript Project. Specialists in art history, bibliography, codicology, historical linguistics, and palaeography have been commissioned to interrogate this material from their various disciplinary perspectives. The result is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary volume which sheds new light on an iconic medieval book and on a transitional period of innovation and experimentation in vernacular book production.
