Religious Pieces in Prose and Verse
Author | : George Gresley Perry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : Christian poetry, English (Middle) |
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Author | : George Gresley Perry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : Christian poetry, English (Middle) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Gresley Perry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : George Gresley Perry |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 990 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Dictionary catalogs |
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Author | : Eleanor Johnson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2018-08-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 022657217X |
What does it mean to contemplate? In the Middle Ages, more than merely thinking with intensity, it was a religious practice entailing utter receptiveness to the divine presence. Contemplation is widely considered by scholars today to have been the highest form of devotional prayer, a rarified means of experiencing God practiced only by the most devout of monks, nuns, and mystics. Yet, in this groundbreaking new book, Eleanor Johnson argues instead for the pervasiveness and accessibility of contemplative works to medieval audiences. By drawing together ostensibly diverse literary genres—devotional prose, allegorical poetry, cycle dramas, and morality plays—Staging Contemplation paints late Middle English contemplative writing as a broad genre that operated collectively and experientially as much as through radical individual disengagement from the world. Johnson further argues that the contemplative genre played a crucial role in the exploration of the English vernacular as a literary and theological language in the fifteenth century, tracing how these works engaged modes of disfluency—from strained syntax and aberrant grammar, to puns, slang, code-switching, and laughter—to explore the limits, norms, and potential of English as a devotional language. Full of virtuoso close readings, this book demonstrates a sustained interest in how poetic language can foster a participatory experience of likeness to God among lay and devotional audiences alike.
Author | : Thomas H. Bestul |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2015-08-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1512800872 |
In this book Thomas H. Bestul constructs the literary history of the Latin Passion narratives, placing them within their social, cultural, and historical contexts. He examines the ways in which the Passion is narrated and renarrated in devotional treatises, paying particular attention to the modifications and enlargements of the narrative of the Passion as it is presented in the canonical gospels. Of particular interest to Bestul are the representations of Jews, women, and the body of the crucified Christ. Bestul argues that the greatly enlarged role of the Jews in the Passion narratives of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is connected to the rising anti-Judaism of the period. He explores how the representations of women, particularly the Virgin Mary, express cultural values about the place of women in late medieval society and reveal an increased interest in female subjectivity.