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John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century (Hardcover)
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John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century (Hardcover)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century Karen A. Winstead Britain of the
fifteenth century was rife with social change, religious dissent,
and political upheaval. Amid this ferment lived John
Capgrave--Austin friar, doctor of theology, leading figure in East
Anglian society, and noted author. Nowhere are the tensions and
anxieties of this critical period, spanning the close of the
medieval and the dawn of early modern eras, more eloquently
conveyed than in Capgrave's works. "John Capgrave's Fifteenth
Century" is the first book to explore the major themes of
Capgrave's writings and to relate those themes to fifteenth-century
political and cultural debates. Focusing on Capgrave's later works,
especially those in English and addressed to lay audiences, it
teases out thematic threads that are closely interwoven in
Capgrave's Middle English oeuvre: piety, intellectualism, gender,
and social responsibility. It refutes the still-prevalent view of
Capgrave as a religious and political reactionary and shows,
rather, that he used traditional genres to promote his own
independent viewpoint on some of the most pressing controversies of
his day, including debates over vernacular theology, orthodoxy and
dissent, lay (and particularly female) spirituality, and the state
of the kingdom under Henry VI. The book situates Capgrave as a
figure both in the vibrant literary culture of East Anglia and in
European intellectual history. "John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century"
offers a fresh view of orthodoxy and dissent in late medieval
England and will interest students of hagiography, religious and
cultural history, and Lancastrian politics and society. Karen A.
Winstead is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State
University and author of "Virgin Martyrs: Legends of Sainthood in
Late Medieval England." The Middle Ages Series 2006 248 pages 6 x 9
9 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-3977-5 Cloth $59.95s 39.00 ISBN
978-0-8122-0383-7 Ebook $59.95s 39.00 World Rights History Short
copy: Rejecting the prevalent view of Capgrave as predictably
conservative, "John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century" contributes to a
broader appraisal of fifteenth-century culture and offers a fresh
view of orthodoxy and dissent in pre-Reformation England.
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