Ethics And Power In Medieval English Reformist Writing
Download Ethics And Power In Medieval English Reformist Writing full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Ethics And Power In Medieval English Reformist Writing ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads.
Author |
: Edwin D. Craun |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2010-02-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139484428 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139484427 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ethics and Power in Medieval English Reformist Writing by : Edwin D. Craun
The late medieval Church obliged all Christians to rebuke the sins of others, especially those who had power to discipline in Church and State: priests, confessors, bishops, judges, the Pope. This practice, in which the injured party had to confront the wrong-doer directly and privately, was known as fraternal correction. Edwin Craun examines how pastoral writing instructed Christians to make this corrective process effective by avoiding slander, insult, and hypocrisy. He explores how John Wyclif and his followers expanded this established practice to authorize their own polemics against mendicants and clerical wealth. Finally, he traces how major English reformist writing - Piers Plowman, Mum and the Sothsegger, and The Book of Margery Kempe - expanded the practice to justify their protests, to protect themselves from repressive elements in the late Ricardian and Lancastrian Church and State, and to urge their readers to mount effective protests against religious, social, and political abuses.
Author |
: Antony J. Hasler |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 269 |
Release |
: 2011-03-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139496728 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139496727 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland by : Antony J. Hasler
This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, it examines the paths by which court poetry and its narrators seek multiple forms of legitimation: from royal and institutional sources, but also in the media of script and print. The book is the first for some time to treat English and Scottish material of its period together, and responds to European literary contexts, the dialogue between vernacular and Latin matter, and current critical theory. In so doing it claims that public and occasional writing evokes a counter-discourse in the secrecies and subversions of medieval love-fictions. The result is a poetry that queries and at times cancels the very authority to speak that it so proudly promotes.
Author |
: Jonas Wellendorf |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 221 |
Release |
: 2018-04-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108424974 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110842497X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia by : Jonas Wellendorf
This study shows some of the ways in which medieval Scandinavians received and re-interpreted pre-Christian religion.
Author |
: Orietta Da Rold |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2020-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108896795 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108896790 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Paper in Medieval England by : Orietta Da Rold
Orietta Da Rold provides a detailed analysis of the coming of paper to medieval England, and its influence on the literary and non-literary culture of the period. Looking beyond book production, Da Rold maps out the uses of paper and explains the success of this technology in medieval culture, considering how people interacted with it and how it affected their lives. Offering a nuanced understanding of how affordance influenced societal choices, Paper in Medieval England draws on a multilingual array of sources to investigate how paper circulated, was written upon, and was deployed by people across medieval society, from kings to merchants, to bishops, to clerks and to poets, contributing to an understanding of how medieval paper changed communication and shaped modernity.
Author |
: Emma O. Bérat |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 247 |
Release |
: 2024-02-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781009434751 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1009434756 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination by : Emma O. Bérat
Emma O. Bérat shows the centrality of women's legacies to medieval political and literary thought in chronicles, hagiography, and genealogy.
Author |
: Eric Weiskott |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 255 |
Release |
: 2016-10-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107169654 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107169658 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis English Alliterative Verse by : Eric Weiskott
A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.
Author |
: Shannon Gayk |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2010-09-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139492058 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139492055 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Image, Text, and Religious Reform in Fifteenth-Century England by : Shannon Gayk
Focusing on the period between the Wycliffite critique of images and Reformation iconoclasm, Shannon Gayk investigates the sometimes complementary and sometimes fraught relationship between vernacular devotional writing and the religious image. She examines how a set of fifteenth-century writers, including Lollard authors, John Lydgate, Thomas Hoccleve, John Capgrave, and Reginald Pecock, translated complex clerical debates about the pedagogical and spiritual efficacy of images and texts into vernacular settings and literary forms. These authors found vernacular discourse to be a powerful medium for explaining and reforming contemporary understandings of visual experience. In its survey of the function of literary images and imagination, the epistemology of vision, the semiotics of idols, and the authority of written texts, this study reveals a fifteenth century that was as much an age of religious and literary exploration, experimentation, and reform as it was an age of regulation.
Author |
: Candace Barrington |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 2019-08-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107180789 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107180783 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature by : Candace Barrington
A comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the interrelationship between law and literature in Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Tudor England.
Author |
: David Lawton |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198792406 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198792409 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Voice in Later Medieval English Literature by : David Lawton
David Lawton approaches later medieval English vernacular culture in terms of voice. As texts and discourses shift in translation and in use from one language to another, antecedent texts are revoiced in ways that recreate them (as "public interiorities") without effacing their history or future. The approach yields important insights into the voice work of late medieval poets, especially Langland and Chaucer, and also their fifteenth-century successors, who treat their work as they have treated their precursors. It also helps illuminate vernacular religious writing and its aspirations, and it addresses literary and cultural change, such as the effect of censorship and increasing political instability in and beyond the fifteenth century. Lawton also proposes his emphasis on voice as a literary tool of broad application, and his book has a bold and comparative sweep that encompasses the Pauline letters, Augustine's Confessions, the classical precedents of Virgil and Ovid, medieval contemporaries like Machaut and Petrarch, extra-literary artists like Monteverdi, later poets such as Wordsworth, Heaney, and Paul Valery, and moderns such as Jarry and Proust. What justifies such parallels, the author claims, is that late medieval texts constitute the foundation of a literary history of voice that extends to modernity. The book's energy is therefore devoted to the transformative reading of later medieval texts, in order to show their original and ongoing importance as voice work.
Author |
: Daniel Wakelin |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2014-11-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316062128 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1316062120 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Scribal Correction and Literary Craft by : Daniel Wakelin
This extensive survey of scribal correction in English manuscripts explores what correcting reveals about attitudes to books, language and literature in late medieval England. Daniel Wakelin surveys a range of manuscripts and genres, but focuses especially on poems by Chaucer, Hoccleve and Lydgate, and on prose works such as chronicles, religious instruction and practical lore. His materials are the variants and corrections found in manuscripts, phenomena usually studied only by editors or palaeographers, but his method is the close reading and interpretation typical of literary criticism. From the corrections emerge often overlooked aspects of English literary thinking in the late Middle Ages: scribes, readers and authors seek, though often fail to achieve, invariant copying, orderly spelling, precise diction, regular verse and textual completeness. Correcting reveals their impressive attention to scribal and literary craft - its rigour, subtlety, formalism and imaginativeness - in an age with little other literary criticism in English.