In Miserere Mei, Clare Costley King'oo examines the critical
importance of the Penitential Psalms in England between the end of
the fourteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. During
this period, the Penitential Psalms inspired an enormous amount of
creative and intellectual work: in addition to being copied and
illustrated in Books of Hours and other prayer books, they were
expounded in commentaries, imitated in vernacular translations and
paraphrases, rendered into lyric poetry, and even modified for
singing. Miserere Mei explores these numerous transformations in
materiality and genre. Combining the resources of close literary
analysis with those of the history of the book, it reveals not only
that the Penitential Psalms lay at the heart of Reformation-age
debates over the nature of repentance, but also, and more
significantly, that they constituted a site of theological,
political, artistic, and poetic engagement across the many
polarities that are often said to separate late medieval from early
modern culture. Miserere Mei features twenty-five illustrations and
provides new analyses of works based on the Penitential Psalms by
several key writers of the time, including Richard Maidstone,
Thomas Brampton, John Fisher, Martin Luther, Sir Thomas Wyatt,
George Gascoigne, Sir John Harington, and Richard Verstegan. It
will be of value to anyone interested in the interpretation,
adaptation, and appropriation of biblical literature; the
development of religious plurality in the West; the emergence of
modernity; and the periodization of Western culture. Students and
scholars in the fields of literature, religion, history, art
history, and the history of material texts will find Miserere Mei
particularly instructive and compelling.
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