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Cultures of Piety - Medieval English Devotional Literature in Translation (Paperback)
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Cultures of Piety - Medieval English Devotional Literature in Translation (Paperback)
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Devotional texts in late medieval England were notable for their
flamboyant piety and their preoccupation with the tortured body of
Christ and the grief of the Virgin Mary. Generations of readers
internalized and shaped the "cultures of piety" represented by
these works. Anne Clark Bartlett and Thomas H. Bestul here gather
seven examples of this literature, all written in the period 1350
1450, one in Anglo-Norman, the remainder in Middle English. (The
volume includes an appendix containing the original texts of the
latter six pieces.) The collection illustrates the polyglottal,
conflicting, and often polemical nature of devotional culture in
the Middle Ages. It provides a valuable context for and interesting
counterpoint to the Canterbury Tales and other classic works of
late medieval England. The introduction and the translators'
headnotes discuss crucial aspects of the texts' histories and
thematics, including the importance of the body in spiritual
practices, the development of female patronage and of a wide
audience for this literature, and the indivisibility of the
political and the religious in medieval times."
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