Devotion To The Name Of Jesus In Medieval English Literature C 1100 C 1530

Author : Denis Renevey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192646439

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Devotion to the Name of Jesus in Medieval English Literature, c. 1100 - c. 1530 by Denis Renevey Pdf

Devotion to the Name of Jesus in Medieval English Literature, c. 1100 - c. 1530 offers a broad but detailed study of the practice of devotion to the Name of Jesus in late medieval England. It focuses on key texts written in Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English that demonstrate the way in which devotion moved from monastic circles to a lay public in the late medieval period. It argues that devotion to the Name is a core element of Richard Rolle's contemplative practice, although devotion to the Name circulated in trilingual England at an earlier stage. The volume investigates to what extent the 1274 Second Lyon Council had an impact in the spread of the devotion in England, and beyond. It also offers illuminating evidence about how Margery Kempe and her scribes used devotion, how Eleanor Hull made it an essential component of her meditative sequence seven days of the week, and how Lady Margaret Beaufort worked towards its instigation as an official feast.

Author : Denis Renevey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Christian life in literature
ISBN : 9780192894083

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Devotion to the Name of Jesus in Medieval English Literature, C. 1100 - C. 1530 by Denis Renevey Pdf

Devotion to the Name of Jesus in Medieval English Literature, c. 1100 - c. 1530 offers a broad but detailed study of the practice of devotion to the Name of Jesus in late medieval England. It focuses on key texts written in Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English that demonstrate the way in which devotion moved from monastic circles to a lay public in the late medieval period. It argues that devotion to the Name is a core element of Richard Rolle's contemplative practice, although devotion to the Name circulated in trilingual England at an earlier stage. The volume investigates to what extent the 1274 Second Lyon Council had an impact in the spread of the devotion in England, and beyond. It also offers illuminating evidence about how Margery Kempe and her scribes used devotion, how Eleanor Hull made it an essential component of her meditative sequence seven days of the week, and how Lady Margaret Beaufort worked towards its instigation as an official feast.

Author : Cate Gunn,Liz Herbert McAvoy,Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781843846628

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Women and Devotional Literature in the Middle Ages by Cate Gunn,Liz Herbert McAvoy,Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa Pdf

Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist scholar Catherine Innes-Parker. Silence was a much-lauded concept in the Middle Ages, particularly in the context of religious literature directed at women. Based on the Pauline prescription that women should neither preach nor teach, and should at all times keep speech to a minimum, the concept of silence lay at the forefront of many devotional texts, particularly those associated with various forms of women's religious enclosure. Following the example of the Virgin Mary, religious women were exhorted to speak seldom, and then only seriously and devoutly. However, as this volume shows, such gendered exhortations to silence were often more rhetorical than literal. The contributions range widely: they consider the English 'Wooing Group' texts and female-authored visionary writings from the Saxon nunnery of Helfta in the thirteenth century; works by Richard Rolle and the Dutch mystic Jan van Ruusbroec in the fourteenth century; Anglo-French treatises, and books housed in the library of the English noblewoman Cecily Neville in the fifteenth century; and the resonant poetics of women from non-Christian cultures. But all demonstrate the ways in which silence, rather than being a mere absence of speech, frequently comprised a form of gendered articulation and proto-feminist point of resistance. They thus provide an apt commemoration and celebration of the deeply innovative work of Catherine Innes-Parker (1956-2019), the respected feminist scholar and a pioneer of this important field of study.

Author : Helen Cooper,Robert R. Edwards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192886736

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The Oxford History of Poetry in English by Helen Cooper,Robert R. Edwards Pdf

The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the fourteen volumes. This volume occupies both a foundational and a revolutionary place. Its opening date—1100—marks the re-emergence of a vernacular poetic record in English after the political and cultural disruption of the Norman Conquest. By its end date—1400—English poetry had become an established, if still evolving, literary tradition. The period between these dates sees major innovations and developments in language, topics, poetic forms, and means of expression. Middle English poetry reflects the influence of multiple contexts—history, social institutions, manuscript production, old and new models of versification, medieval poetic theory, and the other literary languages of England. It thus emphasizes the aesthetic, imaginative treatment of new and received materials by medieval writers and the formal craft required for their verse. Individual chapters treat the representation of national history and mythology, contemporary issues, and the shared doctrine and learning provided by sacred and secular sources, including the Bible. Throughout the period, lyric and romance figure prominently as genres and poetic modes, while some works hover enticingly on the boundary of genre and discursive forms. The volume ends with chapters on the major writers of the late fourteenth-century (Langland, the Gawain-poet, Chaucer, and Gower) and with a look forward to the reception of something like a national literary tradition in fifteenth-century literary culture.

Author : Corinne Saunders,Diane Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108876919

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Women and Medieval Literary Culture by Corinne Saunders,Diane Watt Pdf

Focusing on England but covering a wide range of European and global traditions and influences, this authoritative volume examines the central role of medieval women in the production and circulation of books and considers their representation in medieval literary texts, as authors, readers and subjects, assessing how these change over time. Engaging with Latin, French, German, Welsh and Gaelic literary culture, it places British writing in wider European contexts while also considering more distant influences such as Arabic. Essays span topics including book production and authorship; reception; linguistic, literary, and cultural contexts and influences; women's education and spheres of knowledge; women as writers, scribes and translators; women as patrons, readers and book owners; and women as subjects. Reflecting recent trends in scholarship, the volume spans the early Middle Ages through to the eve of the Reformation and emphasises the multilingual, multicultural and international contexts of women's literary culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004409422

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Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

In Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages, editor Jane Beal and other contributing scholars analyse the reception history of Jesus in medieval cultures (6th–15th c.), considering a wide variety of Christological images and ideas and their influence.

Author : Stephen Kelly,Ryan Perry
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 2503549357

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Devotional Culture in Late Medieval England and Europe by Stephen Kelly,Ryan Perry Pdf

This collection of essays focuses on how the climactic episode of Christian scripture and apocrypha, the life of Christ, was repeatedly adapted for a variety of audiences and devotional uses in the Middle Ages. The collection represents an important milestone in terms of mapping the meditative modes of piety that characterize a number of Christological traditions, including the 'Meditationes vitae Christi' and the numerous versions it spawned in both Latin and the vernacular.

Author : Andrew Brown,Jan Dumolyn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108318099

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Medieval Bruges by Andrew Brown,Jan Dumolyn Pdf

Bruges was undoubtedly one of the most important cities in medieval Europe. Bringing together specialists from both archaeology and history, this 'total' history presents an integrated view of the city's history from its very beginnings, tracing its astonishing expansion through to its subsequent decline in the sixteenth century. The authors' analysis of its commercial growth, industrial production, socio-political changes, and cultural creativity is grounded in an understanding of the city's structure, its landscape and its built environment. More than just a biography of a city, this book places Bruges within a wider network of urban and rural development and its history in a comparative framework, thereby offering new insights into the nature of a metropolis.

Author : Alexandra da Costa
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198847588

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Marketing English Books, 1476-1550 by Alexandra da Costa Pdf

Explores how the earliest printers moulded demand and created new markets and argues that marketing changed what was read and the place of reading in sixteenth-century readers' lives, shaping their expectations, tastes, and their practices and beliefs.

Author : Juliette Dor,Lesley Johnson,Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050248155

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New Trends in Feminine Spirituality by Juliette Dor,Lesley Johnson,Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Pdf

Was there a women's movement in the thirteenth century and is such a question meaningful in its medieval context? Far from being resolved, the issue of whether women had a thirteenth-century renaissance has still decisively to unsettle the periodization of Western European history in twelfth and sixteenth-century humanist renaissances. Herbert Grundmann long ago demonstrated the participation of women in the eremitically-inspired reforming movements of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and in the production of vernacular literature. Yet it is upon his work that this volume builds, for the diocese of Liege is the key area in this development. It was from Liege that Jacques de Vitry approached the papacy to secure permission for the women of this bishopric of Liege, France and Germany to live together and to promote holiness in each other by mutual example. The seventeen contributors to this volume examine not only the beguine religious life in the southern Low Countries, but also the impact of this movement on later medieval Sweden, England and France, the new modes of influence exerted by women in their religious lives, and the revivals of feminine spirituality in the late medieval West through to contemporary North America. Research does not yet allow for a whole new synthesis, but this volume directs scholars to detailed work on specific localities and persons, with an awareness of the problems and possibilities of wider European comparisons.

Author : Miri Rubin
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 963977636X

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Emotion and Devotion by Miri Rubin Pdf

In Emotion and Devotion Miri Rubin explores the craft of the historian through a series of studies of medieval religious cultures. In three original chapters she approaches the medieval figure of the Virgin Mary with the aim of unravelling meaning and experience. Hymns and miracle tales, altarpieces and sermons – a wide range of sources from many European regions – are made to reveal the creativity and richness which they elicited in medieval people, women and men, clergy and laity, people of status and riches as well as those of modest means. The first chapter, "The Global 'Middle Ages'," considers the current historiographical frame for the study of religious cultures and suggests ways in which the Middle Ages can be made more global. Next, "Mary, and Others" examines the polemical situations around Mary, and the location of Muslims and Jews within them. The third chapter, "Emotions and Selves," tracks the sentimental education experienced by Europeans in the late Middle Ages through devotional encounters with the figure of the Virgin Mary in word, image and sound. Each year one scholar of world fame is invited to present lectures in the framework of the Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series at the Central European University, Budapest. This is the second volume in the series of published lectures.

Author : James Augustus Henry Murray,Sir William Alexander Craigie,Charles Talbut Onions
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1700 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : English language
ISBN : EHC:148100220915X

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A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles by James Augustus Henry Murray,Sir William Alexander Craigie,Charles Talbut Onions Pdf

Author : Alexandra Walsham,Brian Cummings,Ceri Law,Bronwyn Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108829991

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Memory and the English Reformation by Alexandra Walsham,Brian Cummings,Ceri Law,Bronwyn Wallace Pdf

Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.

Author : Sir James Augustus Henry Murray,Henry Bradley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1416 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:49015002911155

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The Oxford English Dictionary by Sir James Augustus Henry Murray,Henry Bradley Pdf

Author : Robert W. Hanning
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192894755

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Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World by Robert W. Hanning Pdf

A comparative study of Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales that explores the differences and similarities between the worlds that are portrayed by each text, with a focus on the strategies and limits of personal agency, and the significance and social dynamics of story-telling.