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Author: Nicole R. Rice
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 052189607X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Medieval Academy of America's 2013 John Nicholas Brown Prize!
Author: Edwin D. Craun
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-02-18
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1139484427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe late medieval Church obliged all Christians to rebuke the sins of others, especially those who had power to discipline in Church and State: priests, confessors, bishops, judges, the Pope. This practice, in which the injured party had to confront the wrong-doer directly and privately, was known as fraternal correction. Edwin Craun examines how pastoral writing instructed Christians to make this corrective process effective by avoiding slander, insult, and hypocrisy. He explores how John Wyclif and his followers expanded this established practice to authorize their own polemics against mendicants and clerical wealth. Finally, he traces how major English reformist writing - Piers Plowman, Mum and the Sothsegger, and The Book of Margery Kempe - expanded the practice to justify their protests, to protect themselves from repressive elements in the late Ricardian and Lancastrian Church and State, and to urge their readers to mount effective protests against religious, social, and political abuses.
Author: Susanna Fein
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1903153514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays examining the compiler and contents of two of the most important and significant extant late medieval manuscript collections.
Author: Orietta Da Rold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-01
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1108896790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOrietta Da Rold provides a detailed analysis of the coming of paper to medieval England, and its influence on the literary and non-literary culture of the period. Looking beyond book production, Da Rold maps out the uses of paper and explains the success of this technology in medieval culture, considering how people interacted with it and how it affected their lives. Offering a nuanced understanding of how affordance influenced societal choices, Paper in Medieval England draws on a multilingual array of sources to investigate how paper circulated, was written upon, and was deployed by people across medieval society, from kings to merchants, to bishops, to clerks and to poets, contributing to an understanding of how medieval paper changed communication and shaped modernity.
Author: Richard Matthew Pollard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-17
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1316832465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhere do we go after we die? This book traces how the European Middle Ages offered distinctive answers to this universal question, evolving from Antiquity through to the sixteenth century, to reflect a variety of problems and developments. Focussing on texts describing visions of the afterlife, alongside art and theology, this volume explores heaven, hell, and purgatory as they were imagined across Europe, as well as by noted authors including Gregory the Great and Dante. A cross-disciplinary team of contributors including historians, literary scholars, classicists, art historians and theologians offer not only a fascinating sketch of both medieval perceptions and the wide scholarship on this question: they also provide a much-needed new perspective. Where the twelfth century was once the 'high point' of the medieval afterlife, the essays here show that the afterlives of the early and later Middle Ages were far more important and imaginative than we once thought.
Author: Joseph Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-12-31
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1009182110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUncovering the medieval origin of England's North-South divide, Joseph Taylor examines the complex dynamics of regionalism and nationalism.
Author: Thomas Betteridge
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-07-19
Total Pages: 709
ISBN-13: 019956647X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first comprehensive study of Tudor drama that sees the long 16th century from the accession of Henry Tudor to the death of Elizabeth as a whole, taking in the numinous drama of the 'Mystery Plays' and the early work of Shakespeare. It is an invaluable account of current scholarship and an introduction to the complexity of Tudor drama.
Author: Jennifer N. Brown
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2019-01-01
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1487504071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFruit of the Orchard sheds light on how Catherine of Siena served as a visible and widespread representative of English piety becoming a part of the devotional landscape of the period. By analyzing a variety of texts, including monastic and lay, complete and excerpted, shared and private, author Jennifer N. Brown considers how the visionary prophet and author was used to demonstrate orthodoxy, subversion, and heresy. Tracing the book tradition of Catherine of Siena, as well as investigating the circulation of manuscripts, Brown explores how the various perceptions of the Italian saint were reshaped and understood by an English readership. By examining the practice of devotional reading, she reveals how this sacred exercise changed through a period of increased literacy, the rise of the printing press, and religious turmoil.
Author: Cristina Maria Cervone
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 184384446X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIII: Subjectivity and the Self -- 6. Re-reading Troilus in Response to Tony Spearing -- 7. The English Charles: Subjectivity, Texts and Culture -- IV: Reading for Form -- 8. The Inescapability of Form -- 9. Destroyer of Forms: Chaucer's Philomela -- 10. Gower's Confessio Amantis and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as Dits -- 11. Poems without Form? Maiden in the mor lay Revisited -- 12. "I" and "We" in Chaucer's Complaint unto Pity -- V: Epilogue -- 13. Two Appreciations of A.C. Spearing -- 14. Announcing a Literary Find Apparently Related to the Gawain-poet -- Works Cited -- Index
Author: Claire M. Waters
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0812247728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Translating "Clergie," Claire M. Waters explores medieval texts in French verse and prose from England and the Continent that perform and represent the process of teaching as a shared lay and clerical endeavor.
