The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase Of The Old Testament And Its Cultural Contexts
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The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament
| Author | : Michael Livingston |
| Publisher | : Medieval Institute Publications |
| Total Pages | : 714 |
| Release | : 2011-09-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1580444512 |
Like the Bible upon which it is based, the metrical paraphrase is unlikely to be a text read cover-to-cover by the faint-hearted. The Paraphrase is, in several ways, a remarkable artifact of the Chaucerian period, one that can reveal a great deal about vernacular biblical literature in Middle English, about readership and lay understandings of the Bible, about the relationship between Christians and Jews in late medieval England, about the environment in which the Lollards and other reformers worked, about perceived roles of women in history and in society, and even about the composition of medieval drama. The Paraphrase-poet's proclamation that he intends to write stories "for sympyll men" (line 19) to understand the Scriptures and be engaged by them-"That men may lyghtly leyre / to tell and undertake yt" (lines 23-24)-thus combines the profit of sacred literature with the pleasure of the secular. This is Horace's utile et dulce ("both useful and pleasing") principle at its clearest, a singular example of the didacticism that characterizes so much of medieval literature, an aesthetic of pedagogic efficacy that is inseparably linked to the essential component of true pleasure in the text.
A Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament
| Author | : Herbert Kalen |
| Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2017-10-31 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9781527895218 |
Excerpt from A Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament: Edited in Part and Examined in an Introduction I am also much indebted to Sir israel gollancz for the interest he has been good enough to show in this work; to the marquis OF bath for the loan of ms. Longleat 257 and for permission to haveit rotographed; to Dr. A. E. Cowley of the Bodleian Library for allow ing me to print ms. Selden Supra 52; and to the officials of the said library, the British Museum, and the Gothenburg City Library for their ready assistance and constant courtesy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Middle English Metrical Paraphrase Of The Old Testament (Volume I)
| Author | : Herbert Kalén |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2020-10-11 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9789354215063 |
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
A Middle English Metrical Paraphrase Of The Old Testament (Volume V - Glossary)
| Author | : Urban Ohlander |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2020-11-19 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9789354216008 |
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
A Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)
| Author | : Urban Ohlander |
| Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
| Total Pages | : 138 |
| Release | : 2018-09-13 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9781391360652 |
Excerpt from A Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament, Vol. 4 The part now published ends with the Antiochus episode, correspond ing to II Maccabees, ch. 9. The narrative, being wound up by the usual pious wishes, does not suggest that a continuation is to be expected, so the poem, as far as can be seen, may be regarded as complete. On the other hand, the unknown author has not followed up his original plan of giving an abridged account of the Bible as a whole. He states the object of his work in the following words. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Middle English Biblical Poetry
| Author | : Cathy Hume |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1843846055 |
A new analysis of the neglected genre of medieval Biblical poetry.Medieval England had a thriving culture of rewriting the Bible in art, drama, and literature in Latin, French and English. Middle English biblical poetry was central to this culture, and although these poems have suffered from critical neglect, sometimes dismissed as mere "paraphrase", they are rich, innovative and politically engaged. Read in the same gentry and noble households as secular romance, biblical poems borrow and adapt romance plots and motifs, present romance-inflected exotic settings, and share similar concerns: reputation, order, family and marriage. This book explores six poems from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that retell episodes from the Old Testament: the ballad-like Iacob and Iosep, two lives of Adam and Eve; an alliterative version of the Susanna story, the Pistel of Susan; and the Gawain-poet's Patience and Cleanness. Each chapter identifies new sources and influences for the poems, including from biblical glosses and manuscript illustration. The book also investigates the poems' relationships with contemporary cultures of literature and religion, including with secular romance, and offers new readings of each poem and its cultural functions, showing how they bridge the chasm between medieval Christian England and the Jews and pagans of the pre-Christian Mediterranean world. It also considers reading contexts, arguing that the poems and their manuscripts offer hints about the social class and gender of their household audiences.sses and manuscript illustration. The book also investigates the poems' relationships with contemporary cultures of literature and religion, including with secular romance, and offers new readings of each poem and its cultural functions, showing how they bridge the chasm between medieval Christian England and the Jews and pagans of the pre-Christian Mediterranean world. It also considers reading contexts, arguing that the poems and their manuscripts offer hints about the social class and gender of their household audiences.sses and manuscript illustration. The book also investigates the poems' relationships with contemporary cultures of literature and religion, including with secular romance, and offers new readings of each poem and its cultural functions, showing how they bridge the chasm between medieval Christian England and the Jews and pagans of the pre-Christian Mediterranean world. It also considers reading contexts, arguing that the poems and their manuscripts offer hints about the social class and gender of their household audiences.sses and manuscript illustration. The book also investigates the poems' relationships with contemporary cultures of literature and religion, including with secular romance, and offers new readings of each poem and its cultural functions, showing how they bridge the chasm between medieval Christian England and the Jews and pagans of the pre-Christian Mediterranean world. It also considers reading contexts, arguing that the poems and their manuscripts offer hints about the social class and gender of their household audiences.nder of their household audiences.
