Ancrene Wisse The Katherine Group And The Wooing Group
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Ancrene Wisse The Katherine Group And The Wooing Group
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Author : Bella Millett
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 1996
Ancrene Wisse The Katherine Group And The Wooing Group written by Bella Millett and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literary Criticism categories.
Bibliography of prose works offering unique evidence for the nature of women's religious experience in medieval England, with scholarly introduction.
Erotic Discourse And Early English Religious Writing
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Author : L. Farina
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Erotic Discourse And Early English Religious Writing written by L. Farina and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious Writing discusses the role of sexuality in medieval devotional practice, looking in particular at religious writings circulating in England in the tenth to thirteenth centuries.
Mysticism And Spirituality In Medieval England
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Author : William F. Pollard
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 1997
Mysticism And Spirituality In Medieval England written by William F. Pollard and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
The late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries in England were a golden age of mysticism; the major figures could draw on and allude to a host of treatises, as the Cloud-author acknowledges when he explains how the works of St. Denis validate all he writes about. Without Denis, without the theologians of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, without the anchoritic writings of the thirteenth century, Richard Rolle, Julian of Norwich, Walter Hilton, Margery Kempe could not have written as they did. Likewise, those who followed them - the Wycliffites, the Brigittines, the writers of religious lyrics - responded to those who had gone before. The articles presented here identify major themes and the web of influence that link them; new but solid interpretations are offered of the key figures and their backgrounds, and the emphasis is on the rich variety of mysticism these authors and texts embody.
Medieval Anchoritisms
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Author : Liz Herbert McAvoy
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2011
Medieval Anchoritisms written by Liz Herbert McAvoy and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
An examination of the importance of anchoritism to social, cultural and religious life in the middle ages.
A Companion To Middle English Hagiography
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Author : Sarah Salih
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2006
A Companion To Middle English Hagiography written by Sarah Salih and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The saints were the superheroes and the celebrities of medieval England, bridging the gap between heaven and earth, the living and the dead. A vast body of literature evolved during the middle ages to ensure that everyone, from kings to peasants, knew the stories of the lives, deaths and afterlives of the saints. However, despite its popularity and ubiquity, the genre of the Saint's Life has until recently been little studied. This collection introduces the canon of Middle English hagiography; places it in the context of the cults of saints; analyses key themes within hagiographic narrative, including gender, power, violence and history; and, finally, shows how hagiographic themes survived the Reformation. Overall it offers both information for those coming to the genre for the first time, and points forward to new trends in research. Dr SARAH SALIH is a Lecturer in English at the University of East Anglia. Contributors: SAMANTHA RICHES, MARY BETH LONG, CLAIRE M. WATERS, ROBERT MILLS, ANKE BERNAU, KATHERINE J. LEWIS, MATTHEW WOODCOCK
Women And Medieval Literary Culture
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Author : Corinne Saunders
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-08-17
Women And Medieval Literary Culture written by Corinne Saunders and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Affective Meditation And The Invention Of Medieval Compassion
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Author : Sarah McNamer
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2011-07-07
Affective Meditation And The Invention Of Medieval Compassion written by Sarah McNamer and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-07 with History categories.
Affective meditation on the Passion was one of the most popular literary genres of the high and later Middle Ages. Proliferating in a rich variety of forms, these lyrical, impassioned, script-like texts in Latin and the vernacular had a deceptively simple goal: to teach their readers how to feel. They were thus instrumental in shaping and sustaining the wide-scale shift in medieval Christian sensibility from fear of God to compassion for the suffering Christ. Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion advances a new narrative for this broad cultural change and the meditative writings that both generated and reflected it. Sarah McNamer locates women as agents in the creation of the earliest and most influential texts in the genre, from John of Fécamp's Libellus to the Meditationes Vitae Christi, thus challenging current paradigms that cast the compassionate affective mode as Anselmian or Franciscan in origin. The early development of the genre in women's practices had a powerful and lasting legacy. With special attention to Middle English texts, including Nicholas Love's Mirror and a wide range of Passion lyrics and laments, Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion illuminates how these scripts for the performance of prayer served to construct compassion itself as an intimate and feminine emotion. To feel compassion for Christ, in the private drama of the heart that these texts stage, was to feel like a woman. This was an assumption about emotion that proved historically consequential, McNamer demonstrates, as she traces some of its legal, ethical, and social functions in late medieval England.
Instructional Writing In English
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Author : Matti Peikola
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2009-07-29
Instructional Writing In English written by Matti Peikola and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The history of English writing is, to a considerable extent, the history of instructional writing in English. This volume is the first collection of papers to focus on instructional writing throughout the history of the language. Spanning a millennium of English texts, the materials studied represent procedural and behavioural discourse in a variety of genres. The primary texts, from Ælfric’s homilies to medieval cooking recipes to seventeenth-century American conduct literature to present-day language textbooks, display a variety of linguistic devices typical of instruction. The materials nonetheless differ with respect to the explicitness of their instructive purpose. Bringing together a broad range of instructional writing from the Old, Middle and Modern English periods, this collection celebrates the sixtieth birthday of Risto Hiltunen, who has successfully combined discourse-linguistic approaches with the history of English in his research, and inspired the colleagues and former students contributing to this volume.
Gendering The Master Narrative
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Author : Mary C. Erler
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-06
Gendering The Master Narrative written by Mary C. Erler and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-06 with History categories.
Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one, and how such a tradition might have been transmitted. It describes women's progress toward power as a push-pull movement, showing how practices and institutions that ostensibly enabled women in the Middle Ages could sometimes erode their authority as well.This book provides a much-needed theoretical and historical reassessment of medieval women's power. It updates the conclusions from the editors' essential volume on that topic, Women and Power in the Middle Ages, which was published in 1988 and altered the prevailing view of female subservience by correcting the nearly ubiquitous equation of "power" with "public authority." Most scholars now accept a broader definition of power based on the interactions between men and women.In their Introduction, Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski survey the directions in which the study of medieval women's agency has developed in the past fifteen years. Like its predecessor, this volume is richly interdisciplinary. It contains essays by highly regarded scholars of history, literature, and art history, and features seventeen black-and-white illustrations and two maps.
J R R Tolkien Encyclopedia
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Author : Michael D. C. Drout
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2007
J R R Tolkien Encyclopedia written by Michael D. C. Drout and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
A detailed work of reference and scholarship, this one volume Encyclopedia includes discussions of all the fundamental issues in Tolkien scholarship written by the leading scholars in the field. Coverage not only presents the most recent scholarship on J.R.R. Tolkien, but also introduces and explores the author and scholar's life and work within their historical and cultural contexts. Tolkien's fiction and his sources of influence are examined along with his artistic and academic achievements - including his translations of medieval texts - teaching posts, linguistic works, and the languages he created. The 550 alphabetically arranged entries fall within the following categories of topics: adaptations art and illustrations characters in Tolkien's work critical history and scholarship influence of Tolkien languages biography literary sources literature creatures and peoples of Middle-earth objects in Tolkien's work places in Tolkien's work reception of Tolkien medieval scholars scholarship by Tolkien medieval literature stylistic elements themes in Tolkien's works theological/ philosophical concepts and philosophers Tolkien's contemporary history and culture works of literature