Middle English Biblical Poetry

Author : Cathy Hume
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843846055

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Middle English Biblical Poetry by Cathy Hume Pdf

A new analysis of the neglected genre of medieval Biblical poetry.Medieval England had a thriving culture of rewriting the Bible in art, drama, and literature in Latin, French and English. Middle English biblical poetry was central to this culture, and although these poems have suffered from critical neglect, sometimes dismissed as mere "paraphrase", they are rich, innovative and politically engaged. Read in the same gentry and noble households as secular romance, biblical poems borrow and adapt romance plots and motifs, present romance-inflected exotic settings, and share similar concerns: reputation, order, family and marriage. This book explores six poems from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that retell episodes from the Old Testament: the ballad-like Iacob and Iosep, two lives of Adam and Eve; an alliterative version of the Susanna story, the Pistel of Susan; and the Gawain-poet's Patience and Cleanness. Each chapter identifies new sources and influences for the poems, including from biblical glosses and manuscript illustration. The book also investigates the poems' relationships with contemporary cultures of literature and religion, including with secular romance, and offers new readings of each poem and its cultural functions, showing how they bridge the chasm between medieval Christian England and the Jews and pagans of the pre-Christian Mediterranean world. It also considers reading contexts, arguing that the poems and their manuscripts offer hints about the social class and gender of their household audiences.sses and manuscript illustration. The book also investigates the poems' relationships with contemporary cultures of literature and religion, including with secular romance, and offers new readings of each poem and its cultural functions, showing how they bridge the chasm between medieval Christian England and the Jews and pagans of the pre-Christian Mediterranean world. It also considers reading contexts, arguing that the poems and their manuscripts offer hints about the social class and gender of their household audiences.sses and manuscript illustration. The book also investigates the poems' relationships with contemporary cultures of literature and religion, including with secular romance, and offers new readings of each poem and its cultural functions, showing how they bridge the chasm between medieval Christian England and the Jews and pagans of the pre-Christian Mediterranean world. It also considers reading contexts, arguing that the poems and their manuscripts offer hints about the social class and gender of their household audiences.sses and manuscript illustration. The book also investigates the poems' relationships with contemporary cultures of literature and religion, including with secular romance, and offers new readings of each poem and its cultural functions, showing how they bridge the chasm between medieval Christian England and the Jews and pagans of the pre-Christian Mediterranean world. It also considers reading contexts, arguing that the poems and their manuscripts offer hints about the social class and gender of their household audiences.nder of their household audiences.

Author : David C. Fowler
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 029580131X

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The Bible in Early English Literature by David C. Fowler Pdf

In this companion to his previous book, The Bible in Early English Literature, David Fowler completes his stimulating and broad-ranging study of medieval English literature in the light of biblical tradition. As in the first volume, he both provides a broad general view of literary trends and closely examines representative works that illustrate these trends. The author begins by discussing medieval drama in England--with special attention to the Cornish drama-- as revealed in the cycle plays that enacted the entire history of the world from Creation to Doomsday. He demonstrates how the drama grew out of the liturgy of the Church and developed into a parallel fashion with other kinds of vernacular literature in the later Middle Ages, and he offers a possible explanation of the origin of the morality play in England. This is followed by an examination of representative shorter medieval lyrics. Fowler shows that many of these lyrics were composed to memorialize particular "secular' and "religious" elements blended subtly and distinctively in Middle English lyrics, often with a complete harmony of sacred and sexual significance. A special section deals with Mary Magdalene in popular tradition, comparing her description in the Bible with her treatment in legend, drama, lyric poetry, and the ballad. The final three chapters focus on particular literary works which the author believes to be outstanding examples of poems composed in the biblical tradition. "The Parliament of Fowls" is selected as the best example of biblical influence in all of Chaucer. The work is seen as a Creation poem with its organizing principles derives from commentaries on the first chapter of Genesis--a new theory of the poem's structure which the author feels resolves many of the difficulties previously encountered by scholars. Fowler than treats several works of the "Pearl" poet--"Cleanness," "Patience," "Saint Erkenwald," and the "Pearl"--in their particular blend of humor, seriousness, and Christian serenity. In stark contrast, "Piers the Plowman," the final work dealt with, reflects the agony of the turmoil of late fourteenth-century England. The emphasis is on the historical significance of the poem: the importance of the A text as an ideological influence on the leadership of the Peasants' Revolt in 1381, and the exschatological implications of the later versions (B and C texts). "It is my hope," the author states, "that future studies of 'Piers' will increasingly take history into account and likewise study the versions of the poem separately. Until we learn to walk from this text out into history, we run the risk of missing the important message that this profound and troubling poem offers to twentieth-century man." This book will be of value both to scholars and students of medieval literature and religion and to general readers interested in the varied and intriguing ways that the Bible has influence vernacular literature.

Author : Michele Cutino
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110687330

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Poetry, Bible and Theology from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages by Michele Cutino Pdf

This volume examines for the first time the most important methodological issues concerning Christian poetry – i.e. biblical and theological poetry in classical meters – from a diachronic perspective. Thus, it is possible to evaluate the doctrinal significance of these compositions and the role that they play in the development of Christian theological ideas and biblical exegesis.

Author : Nina Salaman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Hebrew poetry, Medieval
ISBN : NLI:2151195-10

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Hebrew Sacred Poetry in the Middle Ages by Nina Salaman Pdf

Author : Theodore L. Steinberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313049378

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Jews and Judaism in the Middle Ages by Theodore L. Steinberg Pdf

Although Jews constituted the largest minority in medieval Europe, they tend to be largely ignored in general studies of the Middle Ages, with the result that their history and culture are both overlooked and misunderstood. Jews and Judaism in the Middle Ages attempts to correct that situation by presenting, in clear and accessible language, an introduction to Jewish thought as well as to medieval Jewish history and texts. This volume examines the everyday life of medieval Jews in both Christian and Muslim environments, looks at the causes of medieval anti-Semititism and anti-Judaism, and includes a brief history of the persecutions to which medieval Jews were subjected. Despite popular opinion today, medieval Jewish life consisted of far more than persecution and suffering, and the volume examines Jewish accomplishments in the fields of biblical commentary, literature, philosophy, and mysticism, demonstrating that Jewish life, while often difficult, also had its creative and glorious side. Because the Talmud was the most important Jewish text throughout the Middle Ages, this volume introduces readers to the intricacies of that long and involved work, which helped to shape medieval Christianity.

Author : Robert Hood Bowers
Publisher : Gainesville : University of Florida Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UOM:39076006161058

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Three Middle English Religious Poems by Robert Hood Bowers Pdf

Author : David Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521890462

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The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature by David Wallace Pdf

This is the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in 1547. The volume has five sections: After the Norman Conquest ; Writing in the British Isles ; Institutional Productions ; After the Black Death and Before the Reformation . It provides information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception, which will serve both specialists and general readers, and also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers the most extensive and vibrant account available of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will thus prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists.

Author : Janet Schrunk Ericksen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487507466

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Reading Old English Biblical Poetry by Janet Schrunk Ericksen Pdf

Reading Old English Biblical Poetry considers the Junius 11 manuscript, the only surviving illustrated book of Old English poetry, in terms of its earliest readers and their multiple strategies of reading and making meaning. Junius 11 begins with the creation story and ends with the final vanquishing of Satan by Jesus. The manuscript is both a continuous whole and a collection with discontinuities and functionally independent pieces. The chapters of Reading Old English Biblical Poetry propose multiple models for reader engagement with the texts in this manuscript, including selective and sequential reading, reading in juxtaposition, and reading in contexts within and outside of the pages of Junius 11. The study is framed by particular attention to the materiality of the manuscript and how that might have informed its early reception, and it broadens considerations of reading beyond those of the manuscript's compiler and possible patron. As a book, Junius 11 reflects a rich and varied culture of reading that existed in and beyond houses of God in England in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and it points to readers who had enough experience to select and find wisdom, narrative pleasure, and a diversity of other things within this or any book's contents.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1672 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : WISC:89113658975

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress
Page : 1348 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Subject headings
ISBN : UIUC:30112057383207

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1820 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015057968474

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1548 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : SRLF:E0000738492

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A-E by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1534 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015014587672

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy Pdf

Author : Douglas Gray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429588815

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Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric by Douglas Gray Pdf

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 : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1468 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Subject headings
ISBN : UOM:39015010364647

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Library of Congress Subject Headings: A-E by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division Pdf