The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature

The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature

Author: R. Waugh

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0230391877

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This book examines evolution of medieval patience literature from a focus on male and female sufferers to a focus on female suffers in particular. Using feminist revisions of genre-theory, Waugh analyses the concept of counterfeit consciousness in the works of Margery Kempe and Chaucer among others.


Music and Performance in the Later Middle Ages

Music and Performance in the Later Middle Ages

Author: E. Upton

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-12-28

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1137310073

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This book seeks to understand the music of the later Middle Ages in a fuller perspective, moving beyond the traditional focus on the creative work of composers in isolation to consider the participation of performers and listeners in music-making.


Cosmopolitanism and the Middle Ages

Cosmopolitanism and the Middle Ages

Author: J. Ganim

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-03-20

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1137045094

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This collection of essays uncovers a wide array of medieval writings on cosmopolitan ethics and politics, writings generally ignored or glossed over in contemporary discourse. Medieval literary fictions and travel accounts provide us with rich contextualizations of the complexities and contradictions of cosmopolitan thought.


Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe

Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe

Author: Irit Ruth Kleiman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-09-30

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 1137397063

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Twelve medieval scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including law, literature, and religion address the question: What did it mean to possess a voice - or to be without one - during the Middle Ages? This collection reveals how the philosophy, theology, and aesthetics of the voice inhabit some of the most canonical texts of the Middle Ages.


The Gnostic Paradigm

The Gnostic Paradigm

Author: N. Elias

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-04-09

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1137465387

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No study has been carried out examining the gnostic undercurrents in medieval England. For the first time, Natanela Elias investigates the existence of these gnostic traces, using prominent late medieval English literary works such as Piers Plowman and Confessio Amantis and ultimately shedding light on a previously overlooked religious dimension.


Power and Sainthood

Power and Sainthood

Author: P. Salmesvuori

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-10-02

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1137398930

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Analyzing the renowned Saint Birgitta of Sweden from the perspectives of power, authority, and gender, this probing study investigates how Birgitta went about establishing her influence during the first ten years of her career as a living saint, in 1340–1349.


Patience—A Theological Exploration

Patience—A Theological Exploration

Author: Paul Dafydd Jones

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-11-17

Total Pages: 633

ISBN-13: 0567694410

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What does it mean to exercise patience? What does it mean to endure, to wait, and to persevere-and, on other occasions, to reject patience in favor of resistance, haste, and disruptive action? And what might it mean to describe God as patient? Might patience play a leading role in a Christian account of God's creative work, God's relationship to ancient Israel, God's governance of history, and God's saving activity? The first instalment of Patience-A Theological Exploration engages these questions in searching, imaginative, and sometimes surprising ways. Following reflections on the biblical witness and the nature of constructive theological inquiry, its interpretative chapters engage landmark works by a number of ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary authors, disclosing both the promise and peril of talk about patience. Patience stands at the center of this innovative account of God's creative work, God's relationship with ancient Israel, creaturely sin, scripture, and God's broader providential and salvific purposes.


Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots

Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots

Author: C. Keene

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-11-19

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1137035641

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Margaret, saint and 11th-century Queen of the Scots, remains an often-cited yet little-understood historical figure. Keene's analysis of sources in terms of both time and place – including her Life of Saint Margaret , translated for the first time – allows for an informed understanding of the forces that shaped this captivating woman.


Perilous Passages

Perilous Passages

Author: Julie Chappell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-04

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1137277688

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This study will significantly further our interpretations of the unique autobiography of Margery Kempe, lay woman turned mystic and visionary. Following the manuscript from a Carthusian monastery through history, Chappell bridges the gaps in our understanding of the transmission of texts from the medieval past to the present.


The Footprints of Michael the Archangel

The Footprints of Michael the Archangel

Author: J. Arnold

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-10-23

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1137316551

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Early Christians sought miracles from Michael the Archangel and this enigmatic ecumenical figure was the subject of hagiography, liturgical texts, and relics across Western Europe. Entering contemporary debates about angelology, this fascinating study explores the formation and diffusion of the cult of Saint Michael from c. 300-c.800.