Nicholas Love S Mirror And Late Medieval Devotio Literary Culture

Author : David J. Falls
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317087557

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Nicholas Love's Mirror and Late Medieval Devotio-Literary Culture by David J. Falls Pdf

Surviving in 59 complete manuscript versions, few English texts of the late medieval period seem to have achieved the popularity of Nicholas Love's fifteenth-century translation and adaptation of the Latin Meditationes Vitae Christi - The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. The Mirror has received surprisingly little scholarly attention and is often contextualized in terms of its role in the theological conflict between English ecclesiastical orthodoxy and the teachings of heresiarch John Wycliff. David Falls presents a new account of the text's history which de-centralises, but does not disregard, the influence of the Wycliffite controversy. Falls interrogates preconceptions and investigates new possibilities for understanding the composition, circulation, function and use of Love's Mirror by examining both the textual modifications and additions made by Love in his adaptation of the Latin, and places these alterations in context by examining individual copies of the Mirror. The manuscript copies are read as both sites of literary consumption and nexuses of textual transition, demonstrating that it was Love's ability to inscribe his work with "functional diversity" which explains the Mirror's popularity. This book presents a nuanced picture not only of the Mirror's production, circulation and function, but also the dynamic and flourishing devotio-literary culture of late medieval England in which Love's text operated.

Author : David J. Falls
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317087540

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Nicholas Love's Mirror and Late Medieval Devotio-Literary Culture by David J. Falls Pdf

Surviving in 59 complete manuscript versions, few English texts of the late medieval period seem to have achieved the popularity of Nicholas Love's fifteenth-century translation and adaptation of the Latin Meditationes Vitae Christi - The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. The Mirror has received surprisingly little scholarly attention and is often contextualized in terms of its role in the theological conflict between English ecclesiastical orthodoxy and the teachings of heresiarch John Wycliff. David Falls presents a new account of the text's history which de-centralises, but does not disregard, the influence of the Wycliffite controversy. Falls interrogates preconceptions and investigates new possibilities for understanding the composition, circulation, function and use of Love's Mirror by examining both the textual modifications and additions made by Love in his adaptation of the Latin, and places these alterations in context by examining individual copies of the Mirror. The manuscript copies are read as both sites of literary consumption and nexuses of textual transition, demonstrating that it was Love's ability to inscribe his work with "functional diversity" which explains the Mirror's popularity. This book presents a nuanced picture not only of the Mirror's production, circulation and function, but also the dynamic and flourishing devotio-literary culture of late medieval England in which Love's text operated.

Author : Jennifer N. Brown,Nicole R. Rice
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781903153963

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Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions by Jennifer N. Brown,Nicole R. Rice Pdf

Essays exploring the great religious and devotional works of the Middle Ages in their manuscript and other contexts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004444829

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A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Siena by Anonim Pdf

A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Siena introduces the once-powerful commune to a wider audience. Edited by Santa Casciani and Heather Richardson Hayton, this collection explores how Siena built a distinctive civic identity and institutions that endured for centuries.

Author : Hilda Kean,Philip Howell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429889240

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The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History by Hilda Kean,Philip Howell Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History provides an up-to-date guide for the historian working within the growing field of animal-human history. Giving a sense of the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of the field, cutting-edge contributions explore the practices of and challenges posed by historical studies of animals and animal-human relationships. Divided into three parts, the Companion takes both a theoretical and practical approach to a field that is emerging as a prominent area of study. Animals and the Practice of History considers established practices of history, such as political history, public history and cultural memory, and how animal-human history can contribute to them. Problems and Paradigms identifies key historiographical issues to the field with contributors considering the challenges posed by topics such as agency, literature, art and emotional attachment. The final section, Themes and Provocations, looks at larger themes within the history of animal-human relationships in more depth, with contributions covering topics that include breeding, war, hunting and eating. As it is increasingly recognised that nonhuman actors have contributed to the making of history, The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History provides a timely and important contribution to the scholarship on animal-human history and surrounding debates.

Author : Revd. David J Hobman
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244414542

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The story of the "Cordwainers" Mazer Bowl by Revd. David J Hobman Pdf

Author : Carolyn Muessig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192515131

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The Stigmata in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Carolyn Muessig Pdf

Francis of Assisi's reported reception of the stigmata on Mount La Verna in 1224 is almost universally considered to be the first documented account of an individual miraculously and physically receiving the five wounds of Christ. The early thirteenth-century appearance of this miracle, however, is not as unexpected as it first seems. Interpretations of Galatians 6:17—I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ in my body—had been circulating since the early Middle Ages in biblical commentaries. These works perceived those with the stigmata as metaphorical representations of martyrs bearing the marks of persecution in order to spread the teaching of Christ in the face of resistance. By the seventh century, the meaning of Galatians 6:17 had been appropriated by bishops and priests as a sign or mark of Christ that they received invisibly at their ordination. Priests and bishops came to be compared to soldiers of Christ, who bore the brand (stigmata) of God on their bodies, just like Roman soldiers who were branded with the name of their emperor. By the early twelfth century, crusaders were said to bear the actual marks of the passion in death and even sometimes as they entered into battle. The Stigmata in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe traces the birth and evolution of religious stigmata and particularly of stigmatic theology, as understood through the ensemble of theological discussions and devotional practices. Carolyn Muessig assesses the role stigmatics played in medieval and early modern religious culture, and the way their contemporaries reacted to them. The period studied covers the dominant discourse of stigmatic theology: that is, from Peter Damian's eleventh-century theological writings to 1630 when the papacy officially recognised the authenticity of Catherine of Siena's stigmata.

Author : Cate Gunn,Liz Herbert McAvoy,Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Hetta Elizabeth Howes
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literature, Medieval
ISBN : 9781843846123

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Transformative Waters in Late-medieval Literature by Hetta Elizabeth Howes Pdf

A consideration of the metaphor of water in religious literature, especially in relation to women.

Author : Susannah M Chewning
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780708322345

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The Milieu and Context of the Wooing Group by Susannah M Chewning Pdf

This book brings together the most current interpretations of the Wooing Group from scholars currently working on the fields of medieval spirituality, gender, and the anchoritic tradition, providing literary, theological, linguistic, and cultural context for the works associated with the Wooing Group (a collection of texts in English written by an unknown author in the late twelfth to early thirteenth centuries). These works are unique in their context - written almost certainly for a group of women living as anchoresses and recluses who were literate in English and were interested in guidance both in spiritual and worldly issues. The book discusses and explains the impact and significance of these works and situates them within the continuum of medieval theological and literary culture.

Author : Amy N. Vines,Lee Templeton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611462869

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New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature by Amy N. Vines,Lee Templeton Pdf

New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature honors the career and scholarship of Denise N. Baker. Contributors include both early career and established scholars, and the collected essays examine a broad range of medieval mystical and religious literature, such as the writings of Julian of Norwich and William Langland.

Author : Mayumi Taguchi,Yoko Iyeiri
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783825346300

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Pepysian Meditations on the Passion of Christ by Mayumi Taguchi,Yoko Iyeiri Pdf

The Middle English prose ‘Pepysian Meditations on the Passion of Christ’ (PMPC) survives uniquely in Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2125 and has not previously been published. It is one of several Middle English translations of the Passion sequence of the pseudo-Bonaventuran Latin ‘Meditationes Vitae Christi’ (MVC). This part of the MVC circulated independently and in this form is known in modern scholarship as the ‘Meditationes de Passione Christi’ (MPC). The editors argue that although the Middle English version in Pepys 2125 followed the model of the MPC, it is probable that the translation derives directly from a recension of the MPC. Although the translator handles the original with a degree of freedom, the text is not indebted to other sources. The Introduction includes an extensive description of the manuscript which is a late medieval devotional miscellany, and a detailed account of the language of the PMPC. It also addresses the textual tradition out of which the PMPC grew and the work of the translator. The edited text is followed by a commentary, glossary and bibliography.

Author : Laura Ashe,Ralph Hanna
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843845294

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Medieval and Early Modern Religious Cultures by Laura Ashe,Ralph Hanna Pdf

New approaches to religious texts from the Middle Ages, highlighting their diversity and sophistication.

Author : Michelle Karnes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226527598

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Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages by Michelle Karnes Pdf

In Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages, Michelle Karnes revises the history of medieval imagination with a detailed analysis of its role in the period’s meditations and theories of cognition. Karnes here understands imagination in its technical, philosophical sense, taking her cue from Bonaventure, the thirteenth-century scholastic theologian and philosopher who provided the first sustained account of how the philosophical imagination could be transformed into a devotional one. Karnes examines Bonaventure’s meditational works, the Meditationes vitae Christi, the Stimulis amoris, Piers Plowman, and Nicholas Love’s Myrrour, among others, and argues that the cognitive importance that imagination enjoyed in scholastic philosophy informed its importance in medieval meditations on the life of Christ. Emphasizing the cognitive significance of both imagination and the meditations that relied on it, she revises a long-standing association of imagination with the Middle Ages. In her account, imagination was not simply an object of suspicion but also a crucial intellectual, spiritual, and literary resource that exercised considerable authority.

Author : Elina Gertsman,Jill Stevenson
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781843836971

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Thresholds of Medieval Visual Culture by Elina Gertsman,Jill Stevenson Pdf

Interdisciplinary approaches to the material culture of the middle ages, from illuminated manuscripts to church architecture.