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Author : Daniel Simon Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011480152
Author : R. Blumenfeld-Kosinski,N. Warren,D. Robertson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230107199
The late-medieval movement into 'vernacular theology,' as it has come to be called, inspired many forms of literary expression, in all the languages of Europe. Spanning a wide field, the contributors to this volume consider hagiography, translations of and commentaries on scripture, accounts of visionary experiences, and devotional literature. Their essays illuminate encounters with the divine mediated through language, bringing into play a diversity of national cultures and disciplinary points of view. They also engage vital social and political issues connected with religious experience, including challenges to authority, reinterpretations of texts, and renegotiations of gender roles.
Author : Juliette Vuille
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843845898
First comprehensive investigation of the major significance of female sinners turned saints in medieval literature.
Author : Vincent Gillespie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Christian literature, English (Middle)
ISBN : 0708318584
This volume suggests new ways of reading and thinking about the religious culture of late-medieval England. It explores an unusually wide spectrum of Latin and vernacular religious texts, from catechetic handbooks to descriptions of mystical experience, and pays particular attention to the transmission and reception of these texts. The book collects together some of Vincent Gillespie's most influential and important articles from the last twenty-five years. In addition, the author offers a substantial introduction and commentary, which looks at changes in the field, as well as suggesting further reading and areas for future research. The first section "What to Read" discusses lay access to devotional materials; the second, "How to Read," looks at vernacular texts and the modes of reading those texts facilitate and encourage, while section three, "Writing the Ineffable," considers mystical writing's affective and imaginative engagement with the ineffable.
Author : R. M. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429515705
Originally published in 1952 The Lost Literature of Medieval England provides an account of lost masterpieces of medieval English literature. The book examines the evidence for their existence and pieces together a fuller understanding of the literary traditions of the period. In more specific detail, the book looks at the concept of Christian epics and religious and didactic literature, as well as the drama and the lyrical poetry of the period.
Author : Kathryn Maude
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Women
ISBN : 9781843845966
An investigation into texts specifically addressed to women sheds new light on female literary cultures.
Author : Virginia Langum
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137449900
This book considers how scientists, theologians, priests, and poets approached the relationship of the human body and ethics in the later Middle Ages. Is medicine merely a metaphor for sin? Or can certain kinds of bodies physiologically dispose people to be angry, sad, or greedy? If so, then is it their fault? Virginia Langum offers an account of the medical imagery used to describe feelings and actions in religious and literary contexts, referencing a variety of behavioral discussions within medical contexts. The study draws upon medical and theological writing for its philosophical basis, and upon more popular works of religion, as well as poetry, to show how these themes were articulated, explored, and questioned more widely in medieval culture.
Author : Hetta Elizabeth Howes
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literature, Medieval
ISBN : 9781843846123
A consideration of the metaphor of water in religious literature, especially in relation to women.
Author : Louise Campion
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786838322
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 spiritual guidance texts, Lives of Christ and collections 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.
Author : Douglas Gray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429590757
Originally published in 1972, Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric discusses themes and images in religious lyric poetry in Medieval English poetry. The book looks at the affect that tradition and convention had on the religious poetry of the medieval period. It examines the background of the lyrics, including the Latin tradition which was inherited by medieval vernacular and shows how religious lyric poetry presents, through a rich variety of images, the significant incidents in the scheme of Christ’s redemption, such as the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Passion and the Resurrection. It also considers the lyrics which were designed to assist humanity in the task of living in a Christian life, as well as those which prepared them for death.
Author : John C. Stephens
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781476634975
Concepts of heaven and hell are among the oldest, most widespread religious beliefs in history. In Western literature, they are frequently embedded in stories of underworld explorations and celestial journeys—stories examining the nature of the universe, life on earth and the existence of the gods. The author analyzes tales of wonder in both ancient and medieval European literature. Other-worldly narratives appeared in literary contexts in the ancient world, including mythology, poetry and philosophical writings. In medieval times, they remained a popular form of literary expression. These stories are primarily religious in nature, describing fantastic worlds filled with miracles and supernatural beings.
Author : Barbara Newman
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268161408
The sacred and the secular in medieval literature have too often been perceived as opposites, or else relegated to separate but unequal spheres. In Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the Sacred, Barbara Newman offers a new approach to the many ways that sacred and secular interact in medieval literature, arguing that (in contrast to our own cultural situation) the sacred was the normative, unmarked default category against which the secular always had to define itself and establish its niche. Newman refers to this dialectical relationship as "crossover"—which is not a genre in itself, but a mode of interaction, an openness to the meeting or even merger of sacred and secular in a wide variety of forms. Newman sketches a few of the principles that shape their interaction: the hermeneutics of "both/and," the principle of double judgment, the confluence of pagan material and Christian meaning in Arthurian romance, the rule of convergent idealism in hagiographic romance, and the double-edged sword in parody. Medieval Crossover explores a wealth of case studies in French, English, and Latin texts that concentrate on instances of paradox, collision, and convergence. Newman convincingly and with great clarity demonstrates the widespread applicability of the crossover concept as an analytical tool, examining some very disparate works. These include French and English romances about Lancelot and the Grail; the mystical writing of Marguerite Porete (placed in the context of lay spirituality, lyric traditions, and the Romance of the Rose); multiple examples of parody (sexually obscene, shockingly anti-Semitic, or cleverly litigious); and René of Anjou's two allegorical dream visions. Some of these texts are scarcely known to medievalists; others are rarely studied together. Newman's originality in her choice of these primary works will inspire new questions and set in motion new fields of exploration for medievalists working in a large variety of disciplines, including literature, religious studies, history, and cultural studies.
Author : Alastair J. Minnis
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859913864
11 studies of different types of late-medieval religious literature, in English, French and Latin.
Author : Chris R. Armstrong
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493401970
Many Christians today tend to view the story of medieval faith as a cautionary tale. Too often, they dismiss the Middle Ages as a period of corruption and decay in the church. They seem to assume that the church apostatized from true Christianity after it gained cultural influence in the time of Constantine, and the faith was only later recovered by the sixteenth-century Reformers or even the eighteenth-century revivalists. As a result, the riches and wisdom of the medieval period have remained largely inaccessible to modern Protestants. Church historian Chris Armstrong helps readers see beyond modern caricatures of the medieval church to the animating Christian spirit of that age. He believes today's church could learn a number of lessons from medieval faith, such as how the gospel speaks to ordinary, embodied human life in this world. Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians explores key ideas, figures, and movements from the Middle Ages in conversation with C. S. Lewis and other thinkers, helping contemporary Christians discover authentic faith and renewal in a forgotten age.
Author : Nicole R. Rice
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521896078
Winner of the Medieval Academy of America's 2013 John Nicholas Brown Prize!