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Essays exploring the great religious and devotional works of the
Middle Ages in their manuscript and other contexts. Michael G.
Sargent's scholarship on late medieval English devotional
literature has been hugely influential on the fields of Middle
English literature, religious studies, and manuscript studies. His
prolific work on a great range of English and French texts,
including visionary writing, devotional guidance, and drama,
devoting scrupulous attention to the physical forms in which these
texts circulated, has established the scope and impact of religious
writing across the social spectrum in England, enabling a nuanced
understanding of the complex literary interactions between the
cloister and the world. The essays in this volume demonstrate and
pay tribute to Sargent's influence, extending and complementing his
work on devotional texts and the books in which they traveled. The
themes of translation, manuscript transmission and the varieties of
devotional practice are to the fore. Inspired by Sargent's work on
Love's Middle English translation of pseudo-Bonaventuran devotional
texts, some chapters explore other Middle English translations
within this tradition, considering the implications of translation
strategies for shaping readers' practices, while others examine
Carthusian and Birgittine texts as they appear in new contexts,
probing the continuing influence of these orders on devotional life
and theological controversy. Whether looking at devotional
guidance, visionary texts, or hagiography, each contribution works
closely with texts in their material contexts, always considering a
question central to Sargent's scholarship: how texts gain distinct
cultural meanings within particular circumstances of copying,
transmission and ownership.
New essays on the burgeoning of pastoral and devotional literature
in medieval England. Pastoral and devotional literature flourished
throughout the middle ages, and its growth and transmutations form
the focus of this collection. Ranging historically from the
difficulties of localizing Anglo-Saxon pastoral texts tothe reading
of women in late-medieval England, the individual essays survey its
development and its transformation into the literature of
vernacular spirituality. They offer both close examinations of
particular manuscripts, and of individual texts, including an
anonymous Speculum iuniroum, the Speculum religiosorum of Edmund of
Abingdon and later vernacular compositions and translations, such
as Handlyng Synne and Bonaventure's Lignum Vitae. The reading and
devotional use of texts by women and solitaries is also considered.
They therefore form an appropriate tribute to the work of Bella
Millett, whose research has done so much to advance our knowledge
of the field. Contributors: Alexandra Barratt, Mishtooni Bose,
Joseph Goering, Brian Golding, C. Annette Grise, Cate Gunn, Ralph
Hanna, Bob Hasenfratz, Catherine Innes-Parker, E. A. Jones, Derek
Pearsall, Elaine Treharne, Nicholas Watson, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Founded in 1415, the double monastery of Syon Abbey was the only
English example of the order established by the fourteenth-century
mystic St Bridget of Sweden. After its dispersal at the
Dissolution, the community survived in exile and was briefly
restored during the reign of Mary I; but with the accession of
Elizabeth I, some of the nuns and brothers once again sought refuge
on the Continent, first in the Netherlands and later in Lisbon.
This volumeof essays traces the fortunes of Syon Abbey and the
Bridgettine order between 1400 and 1700, examining the various ways
in which reading and writing shaped its identity and defined its
experience, and exploring the interconnections between late
medieval and post-Reformation monastic history and the rapidly
evolving world of communication, learning, and books. They extend
our understanding of religious culture and institutions on the eve
of the Reformationand the impulses that inspired initiatives for
early modern Catholic renewal, and also illuminate the spread of
literacy and the gradual and uneven transition from manuscript to
print between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries. In the
process, the volume engages with larger questions about the origins
and consequences of religious, intellectual and cultural change in
late medieval and early modern England. E.A. JONES is Senior
Lecturerin English, University of Exeter; ALEXANDRA WALSHAM is
Professor of Modern History and a Fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridge. Contributors: E.A. Jones, Alexandra Walsham, Peter
Cunich, Virginia Bainbridge, Vincent Gillespie, C. Annette Grise,
Claire Walker, Caroline Bowden, Claes Gejrot, Ann Hutchison
Interdisciplinary studies on medieval mystics and their cultural
background. Contemplative life in the middle ages has been the
focus of much recent critical attention. The Symposium papers
collected in this volume illuminate the mystical tradition through
examination of written texts and material culturein the medieval
period. A particular focus is on Celtic modes of witnessing to
comtemplative vision from Ireland and Wales: an eighth-century
account of voyages to wonders beyond the known world of Irish
monasticism, and the workof Christian bards in medieval Wales.
Distinctions within the mystical tradition in England are also
explored both within differing Religious Orders and bewtween
individuals engaged with the contemplative life. Dr MARION GLASSCOE
teaches in the School of English and American Studies at the
University of Exeter. Contributors: THOMAS O'LOUGHLIN, OLIVER
DAVIES, R. IESTYN DANIEL, RUTH SMITH, VALERIE EDDEN, DENISE N.
BAKER, DENIS RENEVEY, E.A. JONES, RICHARD LAWES, NAOE KUKITA
YOSHIKAWA, C. ANNETTE GRISE, JAMES HOGG
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