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This edition presents all of the surviving manuscripts, together
with textual apparatus and commentary. The poem is also presented
in parallel with its principal source, Boccaccio's "Filostrato",
enabling the reader to compare the two poems in charting the
evolution and achievement of Chaucer's "Troilus". This edition has
been revised and corrected in order to make the text fully
accessible to the reader unfamiliar with Chaucer's work. An
introduction discusses the text, metre and sources of "Troilus" and
assesses the literary importance of Chaucer's translation method.
New approaches to religious texts from the Middle Ages,
highlighting their diversity and sophistication. From the great age
of pastoral expansion in the thirteenth century, to the
revolutionary paroxysms of the English Reformation, England's
religious writings, cultures, and practices defy easy analysis. The
diverse currents of practice and belief which interact and conflict
across the period - orthodox and heterodox, popular and learned,
mystical and pragmatic, conservative and reforming - are defined on
the one hand by differences as nuanced as the apophatic and
cataphatic approaches to understanding the divine, and on the other
by developments as profound and concrete as the persecution of
declared heretics, the banning and destruction of books, and the
emergence of printing. The essays presented in this volume respond
to and build upon the hugely influential work of Vincent Gillespie
in these fields, offering a variety of approaches, spiritual and
literary, bibliographical and critical, across the Middle Ages to
the Protestant Reformation and beyond. Topics addressed include the
Wycliffite Bible; the Assumption of the Virgin as represented in
medieval English culture; Nicholas Love and Reginald Pecock; and
the survival of latemedieval piety in early modern England. LAURA
ASHE is Professor of English Literature and Tutorial Fellow,
Worcester College, Oxford; RALPH HANNA is Professor of Palaeography
(emeritus), Keble College, Oxford. Contributors: Tamara Atkin,
James Carley, Alexandra da Costa, Anne Hudson, Ian Johnson, Daniel
Orton, Susan Powell, Denis Renevey, Michael G. Sargent, Annie
Sutherland, Nicholas Watson, Barry Windeatt.
The story for children 10 and up of St. Rose of Lima, who became a
hermit in her own home--rather than go to a convent--and how she
became a great Saint. At her confirmation in 1597, she took the
name of Rose, because, when an infant, her face had been seen
transformed by a mystical rose. As a child she was remarkable for a
great reverence, and pronounced love, for all things relating to
God. Impr. 132 pgs 13 Illus, PB
Shows how St. Thomas was big, quiet and slow to speak, thus being
called the \"Dumb Ox\" by fellow students. Shows for children 10
and up how this \"Dumb Ox\" became the greatest teacher in the
history of the Church. Impr. 81 pgs 16 Illus, PB
\"Papa, what\'s the new baby\'s name?\" asked one of the Martin
girls.
Little Therese was \"the baby\" of the Martin family. She was also
her Papa\'s \"Little Queen.\" With her Mama, her Papa and her 4 big
sisters to love her, Therese could have turned out to be a very
spoiled little girl. And indeed, it is true that sometimes she was
cross and naughty.
But Therese had hit upon a plan: she had decided to become a
saint. To do this, she would love God every minute and would always
say, \"Yes\" to whatever He asked of her.
Would this really make Therese into a saint? Wasn\'t it too easy?
Or maybe it would sometimes be too hard? And wouldn\'t Therese
forget about her plan as she grew older?
This book tells what happened to little Therese: It shows how
Therese received a second mother when she lost her first mother,
how she was teased at school, and how she was cured of being a
crybaby. It tells about her mysterious illness, her miraculous
cure, her First Holy Communion, the terrible criminal whose soul
she won back for God, and what she decided to do when she grew up.
All in all, here is the wonderful true story of what happened when
little Therese Martin set out to become a saint.
This edition presents all of the surviving manuscripts, together
with textual apparatus and commentary. The poem is also presented
in parallel with its principal source, Boccaccio's "Filostrato",
enabling the reader to compare the two poems in charting the
evolution and achievement of Chaucer's "Troilus". This edition has
been revised and corrected in order to make the text fully
accessible to the reader unfamiliar with Chaucer's work. An
introduction discusses the text, metre and sources of "Troilus" and
assesses the literary importance of Chaucer's translation method.
Fully-annotated edition of English mystic Margery Kempe's life and
divine revelations [dated 1436-8]. [This edition previously
published by Longman.] The Book of Margery Kempe, the earliest
surviving autobiography in English (dated 1436-8), is a unique
account of the extraordinary life, travels and revelations of a
fifteenth-century Norfolk housewife and mother, pilgrim,prophet and
visionary; it is one of the most compelling and significant English
texts of the middle ages. This volume presents the original text in
accessible form for modern readers, with on-page glossing and a
glossary of common words. It is accompanied by on-page annotation
of and commentary on the Book, bringing together scholarship on
Kempe and setting her life in the social, political and spiritual
context of her time. An introduction provides information on and
context for the further interpretation of the text, and the volume
is completed by a chronology of Kempe's life. [This edition
previously published by Longman.] Professor BARRY WINDEATT is a
Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Survey of and guide to all the major authors and genres in Middle
English prose. The essays in this volume provide an up-to-date and
authoritative guide to the major prose Middle English authors and
genres. Each chapter is written by a leading authority on the
subject and offers a succinct account of all relevant literary,
history and cultural factors that need to considered, together with
bibliographical references. Authors examined include the writers of
the Ancrene Wisse, the Katherine Group and the Wohunge Group;
Richard Rolle; Walter Hilton; Nicholas Love; Julian of Norwich;
Margery Kempe; "Sir John Mandeville"; John Trevisa, Reginald
Pecock; and John Fortescue. Genres discussed include romances,
saints' lives, letters, sermon literature, historicalprose,
anonymous devotional writings, Wycliffite prose, and various forms
of technical writing. The final chapter examines the treatment of
Middle English prose in the first age of print. Contributors: BELLA
MILLETT, RALPH HANNA III, AD PUTTER, KANTIK GHOSH, BARRY A.
WINDEATT, A.C. SPEARING, IAN HIGGINS, A.S.G. EDWARDS, VINCENT
GILLESPIE, HELEN L. SPENCER, ALFRED HIATT, FIONA SOMERSET, HELEN
COOPER, GEORGE KEISER, OLIVER S. PICKERING, JAMES SIMPSON, RICHARD
BEADLE, ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE.
Though written for children 12 and older, this is also the best
biography for adults of St. Louis De Montfort, the \"Apostle of
Mary, \" famous preacher and author of True Devotion to Mary and
The Secret of the Rosary. Truly inspiring Impr. 211 pgs 20 Illus,
PB
This edition brings together for the first time key texts
representing the writings of the medieval English mystics. The
texts have been newly edited from early manuscripts, and are
supplemented with textual and explanatory notes and a glossary. The
book focuses on five major authors, Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton,
the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Dame Julian of
Norwich, and Margery Kempe. Shorter works are presented whole,
where possible, and accompanied by extracts from the mystics'
longer works; extracts from contemporary translations into English
are also included to illustrate the reception of European mystical
texts in later medieval England. Overall, this volume makes
accessible some of the finest writing by English contemplatives and
visionaries of the Middle Ages.
Chaucer was perceived as the father of English poetry, and his
works gave rise to a diversity of traditions of both creative
response and critical commentary, to subsequent 'Chaucerian'
authors and to a body of comment about his writings. This book is
the first to describe Chaucer's literary influence across a wide
range of writers and periods. It takes as its theme the variety of
responses to Chaucer or 'Chaucer Traditions', and addresses topics
of special interest arising from the effects Chaucer's work had on
subsequent writers in the three centuries leading up to Dryden.
Each essay focuses on a certain writer or literary tradition
discussing these in the context of Chaucer's work and its
influence. The result is an important collection of essays which
will be of interest to all teachers and students of Chaucer, as
well as to scholars of poetry in later periods.
This edition brings together for the first time key texts
representing the writings of the medieval English mystics. The
texts have been newly edited from early manuscripts, and are
supplemented with textual and explanatory notes and a glossary. The
book focuses on five major authors, Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton,
the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Dame Julian of
Norwich, and Margery Kempe. Shorter works are presented whole,
where possible, and accompanied by extracts from the mystics'
longer works; extracts from contemporary translations into English
are also included to illustrate the reception of European mystical
texts in later medieval England. Overall, this volume makes
accessible some of the finest writing by English contemplatives and
visionaries of the Middle Ages.
'All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing
shall be well' Julian of Norwich is one of the most celebrated
figures of the English Middle Ages. She is esteemed as one of the
subtlest writers and profoundest thinkers of the period for her
account of the revelations that she experienced in 1373. Julian
lived as an anchoress in Norwich, and after recovering from a
serious illness she described the visions that had come to her
during her suffering. She conceived of a loving and compassionate
God, merciful and forgiving, and believed in our ability to reach
self-knowledge through sin. She wrote of God as our mother, and
embraced strikingly independent theological opinions. This new
translation conveys the poise and serenity of Julian's prose style
to the modern reader. It includes both the short and long texts,
written twenty years apart, through which Julian developed her
ideas. In his introduction Barry Windeatt considers Julian's
astonishingly positive vision of humanity and its potential for
spiritual transformation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years
Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of
literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects
Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate
text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert
introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the
text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
\"Sister, it couldn\'t have happened \" declared the priest. \"It
was all a dream, like the other time.\" But Sister Catherine was
sure she had truly seen Our Lady. And then Our Lady came again
Would the priest ever believe her--and would he ever have the
Medals made, as Our Lady has asked? Here are the answers and the
wonderful story of what happened when the Blessed Virgin Mary came
to St. Catherine Laboure.
One of the most important medieval writers studied in historical
and literary context. Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth/early
fifteenth-century anchoress and mystic, is one of the most
important and best-known figures of the Middle Ages. Her
Revelations, intense visions of the divine, have been widely
studied and read; the first known writings of an English woman,
their influence extends over theology and literature. However, many
aspects of both her life and thought remain enigmatic. This
exciting new collection offers a comprehensive, accessible coverage
of the key aspects of debate surrounding Julian. It places the
author within a wide range of contemporary literary, social,
historical and religious contexts, and also provides a wealth of
new insightsinto manuscript traditions, perspectives on her writing
and ways of interpreting it, building on the work of many of the
most active and influential researchers within Julian studies, and
including the fruits of the most recent,ground-breaking findings.
It will therefore be a vital companion for all of Julian's readers
in the twenty-first century. Dr Liz Herbert McAvoy is Senior
Lecturer in Gender in English and Medieval Studies at Swansea
University. Contributors: Denise M. Baker, Alexandra Barratt,
Marleen Cre, Elisabeth Dutton,Vincent Gillespie, Cate Gunn, Ena
Jenkins, E.A. Jones, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Laura Saetveit Miles, Kim
M. Philips, Elizabeth Robertson,Sarah Salih, Annie Sutherland,
Diane Watt, Barry Windeatt.
This is a comprehensive critical guide to Chaucer's Troilus and
Criseyde. This new edition has been comprehensively revised in
light of the latest scholarly and critical research and with a
fully updated bibliography. It includes a full account of Chaucer's
imaginative deployment of his sources, and an extended survey of
this narrative poem's innovative combination of a range of generic
identities. The chapters explain how Chaucer builds thematic
significance into his poem's symmetrical structure, and the poem's
distinctive variety in style and language, as well as a full
commentary on the poem's concerns with love in the contexts of time
and mutability and human free will. The Guide explores the poem as
an extended debate about the nature and value of love, and how love
was conceptualized and experienced as a form of service in quest of
compassionate reward, a quasi-religious devotion, and a potentially
fatal illness always in hope of cure. The subjectivities of the
chief protagonists are fully analysed, as is the poem's problematic
ending. Alongside discussions of theme and structure, there is also
an account of what the extant manuscripts of Troilus and Criseyde
may reveal about the poem's early genesis, and a unique survey of
responses to Troilus from its own times to the present day. Barry
Windeatt's contribution to the series is a comprehensive
single-volume guide to Troilus and Criseyde, bringing together a
wide range of material and providing a readable commentary on all
aspects of the work. Combining the informative substance of a
reference book with the coherence of a critical reading, the Guide
has taken its place as the standard introduction to Troilus and
Criseyde since its first publication in 1992.
New approaches to the everlasting malleability and transformation
of medieval romance. The essays here reconsider the protean nature
of Middle English romance. The contributors examine both the
cultural unity of romance and its many variations, reiterations and
reimaginings, including its contexts and engagements with other
discourses and forms, as they were "rewritten" during the Middle
Ages and beyond. Ranging across popular, anonymous English and
courtly romances, and taking in the works of Chaucer and Arthurian
romance (rarely treated together), in connection with continental
sources and analogues, the chapters probe this fluid and creative
genre to ask just how comfortable, and how flexible, are its nature
and aims? How were Middle English romances rewritten toaccommodate
contemporary concerns and generic expectations? What can attention
to narrative techniques and conventional gestures reveal about the
reassurances romances offer, or the questions they ask? How do
romances' central concerns with secular ideals and conduct
intersect with spiritual priorities? And how are romances
transformed or received in later periods? The volume is also a
tribute to the significance and influence of the work of Professor
Helen Cooper on romance. Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of
English Studies at Durham University; Megan G. Leitch is Senior
Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University; Corinne
Saunders is Professor of English andCo-Director of the Centre for
Medical Humanities at Durham University. Contributors: Elizabeth
Archibald, Julia Boffey, Christopher Cannon, Neil Cartlidge, Miriam
Edlich-Muth, A.S.G. Edwards, Marcel Elias, Megan Leitch, Andrew
Lynch, Jill Mann, Marco Nievergelt, Ad Putter, Corinne Saunders,
Barry Windeatt, R.F. Yeager
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Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition - Joint IAPR International Workshop, SSPR & SPR 2010, Cesme, Izmir, Turkey, August 18-20, 2010. Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Edwin R. Hancock, Richard C. Wilson, Terry Windeatt, Ilkay Ulusoy, Francisco Escolano
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This volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) series contains the papers presented at the S+SSPR 2010
Workshops, which was the seventh occasion that SPR and SSPR
workshops have been held jointly. S+SSPR 2010 was organized by TC1
and TC2, Technical Committees of the International Association for
Pattern Recognition(IAPR), andheld inCesme, Izmir, whichis a
seaside resort on the Aegean coast of Turkey. The conference took
place during August 18-20, 2010, only a few days before the 20th
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) which was
held in Istanbul. The aim of the series of workshops is to create
an international forum for the presentation of the latest results
and exchange of ideas between researchers in the ?elds of
statistical and structural pattern recognition. SPR 2010 and SSPR
2010 received a total of 99 paper submissions from many di?erent
countries around the world, giving it a truly international
perspective, as has been the case for previous S+SSPR workshops.
This volume contains 70 accepted papers, 39 for oral and 31 for
poster presentation. In addition to par- lel oral sessions for SPR
and SSPR, there were two joint oral sessions of interest to both
SPR and SSPR communities. Furthermore, to enhance the workshop
experience, there were two joint panel sessions on "Structural
Learning" and "Clustering," in which short author presentations
were followed by discussion. Another innovation this year was the
?lming of the proceedings by Videol- tures.
Essays on the many key aspects of medieval literature, reflecting
the significant impact of Professor Derek Brewer. Derek Brewer
(1923-2008) was one of the most influential medievalists of the
twentieth century, first through his own publications and teaching,
and later as the founder of his own academic publishing firm. His
working life of some sixty years, from the late 1940s to the 2000s,
saw enormous advances in the study of Chaucer and of Arthurian
romance, and of medieval literature more generally. He was in the
forefront of such changes, and his understandings ofChaucer and of
Malory remain at the core of the modern critical mainstream. Essays
in this collection take their starting point from his ideas and
interests, before offering their own fresh thinking in those key
areas of medieval studies in which he pioneered innovations which
remain central: Chaucer's knight and knightly virtues;
class-distinction; narrators and narrative time; lovers and loving
in medieval romance; ideals of feminine beauty; love,friendship and
masculinities; medieval laughter; symbolic stories, the nature of
romance, and the ends of storytelling; the wholeness of Malory's
Morte Darthur; modern study of the medieval material book;
Chaucer's poetic language and modern dictionaries; and Chaucerian
afterlives. This collection builds towards an intellectual profile
of a modern medievalist, cumulatively registering how the potential
of Derek Brewer's work is being reinterpreted and is renewing
itself now and into the future of medieval studies. Charlotte
Brewer is Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford
University and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford; Barry Windeatt
is Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow
of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Contributors: Elizabeth Archibald,
Charlotte Brewer, Mary Carruthers, Christopher Cannon, Helen
Cooper, A.S.G. Edwards, Jill Mann, Alastair Minnis, Derek Pearsall,
Corinne Saunders, James Simpson, A.C. Spearing, Jacqueline
Tasioulas, Robert Yeager, Barry Windeatt.
The famous life and great miracles of St. Benedict, for all
children 10 and up. The story of poisoned wine, saving a body from
drowning, raising one from the dead, plus, how he founded the
Benedictine Order, his sister, St. Scholastica, etc. Impr. 158 pgs
19 Illus, PB
Essays on book history, manuscripts and reading during a period of
considerable change. The production, transmission, and reception of
texts from England and beyond during the late medieval and early
renaissance periods are the focus of this volume. Chapters consider
the archives and the material contexts in which texts were
produced, read, and re-read; the history of specific manuscripts
and early printed books; and some of the continuities and changes
in literary and book production, dissemination, and reception in
the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Responding to Professor
Julia Boffey's pioneering work on medieval and early Tudor material
and literary culture, they cover a range of genres - from practical
texts written in Latin to works of Middle English poetryand prose,
both secular and religious - and examine an assortment of different
reading contexts: lay, devotional, local, regional, and national.
TAMARA ATKIN is Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval and Early
RenaissanceLiterature, and JACLYN RAJSIC is Lecturer in Medieval
Literature, at the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary
University of London. Contributors: Laura Ashe, Priscilla Bawcutt,
Martin Camargo, Margaret Connolly, Robert R. Edwards, A.S.G.
Edwards, Susanna Fein, Joel Grossman, Alfred Hiatt, Pamela M. King,
Matthew Payne, Derek Pearsall, Corinne Saunders, Barry Windeatt,
R.F. Yeager.
Margery Kempe and her Book studied in both literary and historical
context. Margery Kempe's Book provides rare access to the "marginal
voice" of a lay medieval woman, and is now the focus of much
critical study. This Companion seeks to complement the existing
almost exclusively literary scholarship with work that also draws
significantly on historical analysis, and is concerned to
contextualise Kempe's Book in a number of different ways, using her
work as a way in to the culture and society of medieval northern
Europe. Topics include images and pilgrimage; women, work and trade
in medieval Norfolk; political culture and heresy; the prophetic
tradition; female mystics and the body; women's roles and
lifecycle; religious drama and reenactment; autobiography and
gender. Contributors: JOHN H. ARNOLD, P.H. CULLUM, ISABEL DAVIS,
ALLYSON FOSTER, JACQUELINE JENKINS, KATHERINE J. LEWIS, KATE
PARKER, KIM M. PHILLIPS, SARAH SALIH, CLAIRE SPONSLER, DIANE
WATT,BARRY WINDEATT.
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