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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
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A Companion to Ancrene Wisse (Paperback)
Yoko Wada; Contributions by A.S.G. Edwards, Anne Savage, Bella Millett, Catherine Innes-Parker, …
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Ancrene Wisse introduced through a variety of cultural and critical
approaches which establish the originality and interest of the
treatise. The thirteenth-century Ancrene Wisse is a guide for
female recluses. Addressed to three young sisters of gentle birth,
it teaches what truly good anchoresses should and should not do,
offering in its examples a glimpse of the real life women had in
England in the middle ages. It is also important for its evidence
for the continuation of the Anglo-Saxon tradition of prose writing,
being produced in the West Midlands where Old English writing
conventions continued to develop even after the Norman conquest.
The Companion addresses the cultural and historical background, the
affiliations of the versions, genre, authorship and language; the
various approaches also includea feminist reading of the text.
Contributors: ROGER DAHOOD, RICHARD DANCE, A.S.G. EDWARDS,
CATHERINE INNES-PARKER, BELLA MILLETT, CHRISTINA VON NOLCKEN,
ELIZABETH ROBERTSON, ANNE SAVAGE, D.A. TROTTER, YOKO WADA, NICHOLAS
WATSON.
Essays challenging the orthodox opinion of anchorites as entirely
divorced from the world around them. Much of the research into
medieval anchoritism to date has focused primarily on its liminal
and elite status within the socio-religious cultures of its day:
the anchorite has long been depicted as both solitary and alone,
almost entirely removed from community and living a life of
permanent withdrawal and isolation, in effect dead to the world.
Considerably less attention has been afforded to the communal
sociability that also formed part of the reclusivelife during the
period, The essays in this volume, stemming from a variety of
cross-disciplinary approaches and methodologies, lay down a
challenge to this position, breaking new ground in their
presentation of the medievalanchorite and other types of enclosed
solitary as playing a central role within the devotional life of
the communities in which they were embedded. They attest also to
the frequent involvement of anchorites and other recluses in local,
national and, sometimes, international matters of importance.
Overall, the volume suggests that, far from operating on the
socio-religious periphery, as posited previously, the medieval
anchorite was more often found at theheart of a sometimes
intersecting array of communities: synchronic and diachronic;
physical and metaphysical; religious and secular; gendered and
textual. CATE GUNN has taught in the Continuing Education and
LiteratureDepartments of the University of Essex; LIZ HERBERT
MCAVOY is Professor of Medieval Literature at Swansea University.
Contributors: Diana Denissen, Clare Dowding, Clarck Drieshen, Cate
Gunn, Catherine Innes-Parker, E.A. Jones, Dorothy Kim, Liz Herbert
McAvoy, Godelinde Perk, James Plumtree, Michelle Sauer, Sophie
Sawicka-Sykes, Andrew Thornton OSB,
The Wooing of Our Lord and the Wooing Group prayers occupy a key
position in the history of English literature and the development
of English religious devotion. Dating from the second quarter of
the thirteenth century, they are among a group of texts written in
English at a time when the language of literature and the court was
Anglo-Norman French, and the language of church and state was
Latin. The text for which this group is named, The Wooing of Our
Lord is also a highly skilled composition, combining beautiful and
poetic expression with a profound affective theology. Its
first-person female narrator speaks directly to Christ, becoming
the voice of the reader whom the text guides through a passionate
meditation upon the magnitude of Christ's love, his sufferings in
his Passion, and the response of the individual soul. Catherine
Innes-Parker's graceful new translation is paired with the original
Middle English dialect in a facing-page format.
Essays suggesting new ways of studying the crucial but sometimes
difficult range of medieval mystical material. This volume seeks to
explore the origins, context and content of the anchoritic and
mystical texts produced in England during the Middle Ages and to
examine the ways in which these texts may be studied and taught
today. It foregrounds issues of context and interaction, seeking
both to position medieval spiritual writings against a surprisingly
wide range of contemporary contexts and to face the challenge of
making these texts accessible to a wider readership. The
contributions, by leading scholars in the field, incorporate
historical, literary and theological perspectives and offer
critical approaches and background material which will inform both
research and teaching. The approaches to Middle English anchoritic
and mystical texts suggested in this volume are many and varied. In
this they reflect the richness and complexity of the contexts from
which these writings emerged. These essays are offered aspart of an
ongoing exploration of aspects of medieval spirituality which,
while posing a considerable challenge to modern readers, also offer
invaluable insights into the interaction between medieval culture
and belief. Contributors: E.A. Jones, Dee Dyas, Valerie Edden,
Santha Bhattachariji, Denis Renevey, A.C. Spearing, Thomas Bestul,
Liz Herbert McAvoy, Barry A. Windeatt, Alexandra Barratt, R.S.
Allen, Roger Ellis, Ann M. Hutchison, Marion Glasscoe, Catherine
Innes-Parker
Papers on women and religion in the middle ages, drawn from
archive, manuscipt and early printed sources. Taking a variety of
critical approaches, the papers in Women, the Book and the
Godlyanalyse the subject of women and religion, illustrating
clearly the wealth of previously untapped material on this topic,
whether in archive, manuscript or early printed source. The volume
examines writing by women, writing which excludes women, and
writing which ignores them, as well as women readers, women
patrons, and women who were read to. Archaeology, canon and civil
law, and trial depositions are all represented. The common
determinants of marital and social status are, of course, explored,
but so also are the problems of women and language, women's various
roles as creators, recipients, and objects, and women's positions
on the sliding scale between the orthodox, the reforming, and the
heterodox churches. The essays thus represent something of the
variety and range of work being done on medieval women today.
Contributors: ALCUIN BLAMIRES, JACQUELINE MURRAY, WYBREN SCHEEPSMA,
ANNEM. DUTTON, ROSALYNN VOADEN, GRACE JANTZEN, ELIZABETH A.
ANDERSEN, THOMAS LUONGO, BENEDICTA WARD, GOPA ROY, GEORGES WHALEN,
CATHERINE INNES-PARKER, HELENPHILLIPS, SHANNON McSHEFFREY, PETER
BILLER
Ancrene Wisse introduced through a variety of cultural and critical
approaches which establish the originality and interest of the
treatise. The thirteenth-century Ancrene Wisse is a guide for
female recluses. Addressed to three young sisters of gentle birth,
it teaches what truly good anchoresses should and should not do,
offering in its examples a glimpse of the real life women had in
England in the middle ages. It is also important for its evidence
for the continuation of the Anglo-Saxon tradition of prose writing,
being produced in the West Midlands where Old English writing
conventions continued to develop even after the Norman conquest.
The Companion addresses the cultural and historical background, the
affiliations of the versions, genre, authorship and language; the
various approaches also includea feminist reading of the text.
Contributors ROGER DAHOOD, RICHARD DANCE, A.S.G. EDWARDS, CATHERINE
INNES-PARKER, BELLA MILLETT, CHRISTINA VON NOLCKEN, ELIZABETH
ROBERTSON, ANNE SAVAGE, D.A. TROTTER, YOKO WADA, NICHOLAS WATSON.
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