Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe
Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe

Author: Sari Katajala-Peltomaa

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0198850468

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Covering Western Europe (c. 1240-1450) and drawing upon a rich body of sources, this volume analyses how lay people understood the phenomenon of demonic presence and possession and used it to identify and unravel problems in their lives.

Approaching the Bible in medieval England
Approaching the Bible in medieval England

Author: Eyal Poleg

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2016-05-16

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1526110520

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How did people learn their Bibles in the Middle Ages? Did church murals, biblical manuscripts, sermons or liturgical processions transmit the Bible in the same way? This book unveils the dynamics of biblical knowledge and dissemination in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England. An extensive and interdisciplinary survey of biblical manuscripts and visual images, sermons and chants, reveals how the unique qualities of each medium became part of the way the Bible was known and recalled; how oral, textual, performative and visual means of transmission joined to present a surprisingly complex biblical worldview. This study of liturgy and preaching, manuscript culture and talismanic use introduces the concept of biblical mediation, a new way to explore Scriptures and society. It challenges the lay-clerical divide by demonstrating that biblical exegesis was presented to the laity in non-textual means, while the ‘naked text’ of the Bible remained elusive even for the educated clergy.

From Chaucer's Pardoner to Shakespeare's Iago
From Chaucer's Pardoner to Shakespeare's Iago

Author: Maik Goth

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9783631564653

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In The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages the American critic Harold Bloom claims that Shakespeare drew on Chaucer's Pardoner when creating the villain Iago for his Othello. This book turns Bloom's observation of influences within the canon of Western literature into a more complex intermedial analysis of dramatic and literary traditions at the waning of the Middle Ages and the dawn of the Renaissance. The discussion of verbal and non-verbal codes in Chaucer's presentation of the Pardoner and Shakespeare's depiction of Iago sheds light on the various strands of the Vice's development, and shows that Chaucer's pilgrim, who descends obliquely from the stage Vices, stands at the very beginning of the Vice tradition, while Iago is a late development of him, who adapts his role to new dramatic challenges.

The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, 1501–1557
The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, 1501–1557

Author: Peter W. M. Blayney

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-11-21

Total Pages: 1559

ISBN-13: 1107512409

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This major, revisionist reference work explains for the first time how the Stationers' Company acquired both a charter and a nationwide monopoly of printing. In the most detailed and comprehensive investigation of the London book trade in any period, Peter Blayney systematically documents the story from 1501, when printing first established permanent roots inside the City boundaries, until the Stationers' Company was incorporated by royal charter in 1557. Having exhaustively re-examined original sources and scoured numerous archives unexplored by others in the field, Blayney radically revises accepted beliefs about such matters as the scale of native production versus importation, privileges and patents, and the regulation of printing by the Church, Crown and City. His persistent focus on individuals - most notably the families, rivals and successors of Richard Pynson, John Rastell and Robert Redman - keeps this study firmly grounded in the vivid lives and careers of early Tudor Londoners.

Manuscripta
Manuscripta

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1957

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13:

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Issues for Feb. 1957-July 1959 include a Checklist of the Vatican manuscript codices available for consultation at the Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library at St. Louis University, pts. 1-8.

Lower Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in Late-medieval England
Lower Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in Late-medieval England

Author: Lawrence Raymond Poos

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 772

ISBN-13: 9780197262450

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The lower ecclesiastical courts were among the most important law courts encountered by ordinary English people in the Middle Ages, dispensing the justice of medieval canon law in its criminal guise. This volume presents documents from two of these ecclesiastical courts, providing valuable insights into the social history of late medieval England.