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Sanctifying Signs - Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England (Hardcover, New)
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Sanctifying Signs - Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England (Hardcover, New)
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Concentrating on the sacrament of the altar, poverty, and
conflicting versions of sanctity, Sanctifying Signs presents a
critical study of Christian literature, theology, and culture in
late medieval England. In this notable book, David Aers considers
the diverse way in which certain late medieval Christians and their
Church engaged the immense resources of the Christian tradition in
their own historical moment. Using a wide range of texts, Aers
explores the complex theological, institutional, and political
processes that shape and preserve tradition during changing
circumstances. He is particularly interested in why some texts were
judged by the late medieval Church to be orthodox and others
heretical, and the effect of these judgments on the conversations
and debates of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Sanctifying
Signs begins with accounts of the sacrament of the altar that were
deemed orthodox in the late medieval Church. Aers then shifts his
focus to the relationship between sanctification and the sign of
poverty. Finally, he reflects on the relationship between some
versions of domesticity and sanctification. Texts of William
Langland, John Wyclif, Walter Brut, William Thorpe, and others are
examined within the context of a broad range of earlier and
contemporary writings and events. Through these modes of
exploration Aers seeks to understand and reinvigorate a
theological, ethical, ecclesiological, and political conversation
that has been pursued through a variety of rhetorical forms since
the late Middle Ages. Students and scholars of medieval literature
and theology will find David Aers's trenchant new work to be an
invaluable resource.
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