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Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in
commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist scholar
Catherine Innes-Parker. Silence was a much-lauded concept in the
Middle Ages, particularly in the context of religious literature
directed at women. Based on the Pauline prescription that women
should neither preach nor teach, and should at all times keep
speech to a minimum, the concept of silence lay at the forefront of
many devotional texts, particularly those associated with various
forms of women's religious enclosure. Following the example of the
Virgin Mary, religious women were exhorted to speak seldom, and
then only seriously and devoutly. However, as this volume shows,
such gendered exhortations to silence were often more rhetorical
than literal. The contributions range widely: they consider the
English 'Wooing Group' texts and female-authored visionary writings
from the Saxon nunnery of Helfta in the thirteenth century; works
by Richard Rolle and the Dutch mystic Jan van Ruusbroec in the
fourteenth century; Anglo-French treatises, and books housed in the
library of the English noblewoman Cecily Neville in the fifteenth
century; and the resonant poetics of women from non-Christian
cultures. But all demonstrate the ways in which silence, rather
than being a mere absence of speech, frequently comprised a form of
gendered articulation and proto-feminist point of resistance. They
thus provide an apt commemoration and celebration of the deeply
innovative work of Catherine Innes-Parker (1956-2019), the
respected feminist scholar and a pioneer of this important field of
study.
This collection of essays by leading experts in manuscript studies
sheds new light on ways to approach medieval texts in their
manuscript context. Each contribution provides groundbreaking
insight into the field of medieval textual culture, demonstrating
the various interconnections between medieval material and literary
traditions. The contributors' work aids reconstruction of the
period's writing practices, as contextual factors surrounding the
texts provide clues to the 'manuscript experience'. Topics such as
scribal practice and textual providence, glosses, rubrics, page
lay-out, and even page ruling, are addressed in a manner
illustrative and suggestive of textual practice of the time, while
the volume further considers the interface between the manuscript
and early textual communities. Looking at medieval inventories of
books no longer extant, and addressing questions such as ownership,
reading practices and textual production, Medieval Texts in Context
addresses the fundamental interpretative issue of how
scribe-editors worked with an eye to their intended audience. An
understanding of the world inhabited by the scribal community is
made use of to illuminate the rationale behind the manufacture of
devotional texts. The combination of approaches to the medieval
vernacular manuscript presented in this volume is unique, marking a
major, innovative contribution to manuscript studies.
This collection of essays by leading experts in manuscript studies
sheds new light on ways to approach medieval texts in their
manuscript context. Each contribution provides groundbreaking
insight into the field of medieval textual culture, demonstrating
the various interconnections between medieval material and literary
traditions. The contributors' work aids reconstruction of the
period's writing practices, as contextual factors surrounding the
texts provide clues to the 'manuscript experience'. Topics such as
scribal practice and textual providence, glosses, rubrics, page
lay-out, and even page ruling, are addressed in a manner
illustrative and suggestive of textual practice of the time, while
the volume further considers the interface between the manuscript
and early textual communities. Looking at medieval inventories of
books no longer extant, and addressing questions such as ownership,
reading practices and textual production, Medieval Texts in Context
addresses the fundamental interpretative issue of how
scribe-editors worked with an eye to their intended audience. An
understanding of the world inhabited by the scribal community is
made use of to illuminate the rationale behind the manufacture of
devotional texts. The combination of approaches to the medieval
vernacular manuscript presented in this volume is unique, marking a
major, innovative contribution to manuscript studies.
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.
An exploration of the relations between medical and religious
discourse and practice in medieval culture, focussing on how they
are affected by gender. Current preoccupations with the body have
led to a growing interest in the intersections between religion,
literature and the history of medicine, and, more specifically, how
they converge within a given culture. This collection of essays
explores the ways in which aspects of medieval culture were
predicated upon an interaction between medical and religious
discourses, particularly those inflected by contemporary gendered
ideologies. The essays interrogatethis convergence broadly in a
number of different ways: textually, conceptually, historically,
socially and culturally. They argue for an inextricable
relationship between the physical and spiritual in accounts of
health, illness and disability, and demonstrate how medical,
religious and gender discourses were integrated in medieval
culture. Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa is Professor of English in the
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Shizuoka University.
Contributors: Louise M. Bishop, Elma Brenner, Joy Hawkins, Roberta
Magnani, Takami Matsuda, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Irina Metzler, Denis
Renevey, Patricia Skinner, Juliette Vuille, Diane Watt, Naoe Kukita
Yoshikawa.
The Doctrine of the Hert was the fifteenth-century English
translation of De doctrina cordis, the thirteenth-century Latin
devotional treatise addressed to nuns. The text progressively pairs
the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit with seven key actions of the
heart, leading readers toward contemplative unity with God. The
text was a religious bestseller. It circulated widely throughout
Europe between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries and was
translated into numerous vernacular versions. This book consists of
ten essays from an international group of scholars of medieval
religion discussing the Middle English text alongside its Latin
forebear, and other European vernacular translations (French,
German, Spanish and Middle Dutch). Despite its medieval popularity,
The Doctrine of the Hert has largely escaped the attention of
scholars until recently. Yet it has much to offer regarding our
understanding of late medieval female spirituality. University of
Exeter Press's new edition (published June 2009) opens up the field
by providing access to the text, and this companion further
establishes scholarship on this text.
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
This volume makes readily available for the first time a critical
edition of The Doctrine of the Hert, the fifteenth-century English
translation of De doctrina cordis, a thirteenth-century Latin
devotional treatise addressed to nuns. A religious bestseller, the
Doctrina circulated throughout Europe between the thirteenth and
fifteenth centuries and was translated into six different
languages. The Doctrina progressively pairs the seven gifts of the
Holy Spirit with seven key actions of the heart, leading readers
toward contemplative unity with God. Despite its medieval
popularity, the Doctrina has largely escaped the attention of
scholars until recently. Exeter's edition offers a full textual
commentary, while its introduction not only examines current
thinking upon the Doctrina's authorship and envisaged primary
audience, but also takes advantage of recent scholarly
breakthroughs in the understanding of late medieval female
spirituality.
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
Essays on the ways in which the mystical writers of the fourteenth
and fifteenth century responded to and influenced each other.
Without the theologians of the eleventh and twelfth centuries,
without the anchoritic writings of the thirteenth century, Richard
Rolle, Julian of Norwich, Walter Hilton, Margery Kempe could not
have written as they did. Likewise,those who followed them - the
Wycliffites, the Bridgeittines, the writers of religious lyrics
-responded to those who had gone before. The articles presented
here identify major themes and the web of influence that links
them; new but solid interpretations are offered of the key figures
and their background, and the emphasis is on the rich variety of
mysticism these authors and texts embody. WILLIAM F. POLLARD is
Professor of English at Huntingdon College; ROBERT BOENIG is
Associate Professor of English at Texas A & M University.
Contributors: THOMAS H. BESTUL, ROBERT BOENIG, RITAMARY BRADLEY,
SUSAN DICKMAN, DOUGLAS GRAY, ROGER ELLIS, MICHAEL P. KUCZYNSKI,
WILLIAM F. POLLARD, DENIS RENEVEY, ELLEN M. ROSS, ANNE SAVAGE, RENE
TIXIER.
Language, Self and Love offers a unique insight into the
development of the language of interiority in the medieval
literature inspired by the Song of Songs and its commentaries. It
traces the evolution of a medieval identity in the process of
self-fashioning and, in showing the importance of mystical writing
for understanding medieval subjectivity, suggests that the 'self'
is not the early modern invention it is often claimed to be. Denis
Renevey discusses the correspondences between the discourse of love
in the Song of Songs and the language of mysticism in the writings
of William of St Thierry and Richard Rolle, where the self is
described in its attempts at establishing a direct relationship
with God. He also shows how the textual strategies offered in
mystical writing for the use of female recipients engage with
questions of misogyny and the relationship between Latin and
vernacular cultures.
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