Title Cultures of piety : medieval English devotional literature in translation / edited by Anne Clark Bartlett and Thomas H. Bestul

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 256 pages) Contents Henry of Lancaster: the Book of holy medicines / M. Teresa Tavormina -- The Middle English Pseudo-Augustinian Soliloquies and its anti-Wycliffite commentary / Robert S. Sturges -- The Gast of Gy / Mona L. Logarbo -- The privity of the passion / Denise N. Baker -- The fifteen oes / Rebecca Krug -- Life of Soul / Paul F. Schaffner -- Symon Wynter: the Life of St. Jerome / Claire Waters -- Appendix: anthology of Middle English texts Summary Devotional texts in late medieval England were notable for their flamboyant piety and their preoccupation with the tortured body of Christ and the grief of the Virgin Mary. Generations of readers internalized and shaped the "cultures of piety" represented by these works. Anne Clark Bartlett and Thomas H. Bestul here gather seven examples of this literature, all written in the period 1350-1450, one in Anglo-Norman, the remainder in Middle English. (The volume includes an appendix containing the original texts of the latter six pieces.) The collection illustrates the polyglottal, conflicting, and often polemical nature of devotional culture in the Middle Ages. It provides a valuable context for and interesting counterpoint to the Canterbury Tales and other classic works of late medieval England. The introduction and the translators' headnotes discuss crucial aspects of the texts' histories and thematics, including the importance of the body in spiritual practices, the development of female patronage and of a wide audience for this literature, and the indivisibility of the political and the religious in medieval times Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-253) Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Devotional literature, English (Middle) English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Modernized versions. Piety -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Sources Christian life -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Sources Piety -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Sources Christian life -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Sources LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Medieval. Christian life -- Middle Ages Devotional literature, English (Middle) English literature -- Middle English Christliche Literatur Anthologie Geschichte 1350-1450. SUBJECT England -- Religious life and customs -- Sources Subject England Mittelenglisch. Genre/Form History Sources Translations Form Electronic book Author Bartlett, Anne Clark, 1960- Bestul, Thomas H. (Thomas Howard), 1942- ISBN 9781501726767 1501726765

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