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Cultures of Piety

Medieval English Devotional Literature in Translation
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Devotional texts in late medieval England were notable for their flamboyant piety and their preoccupation with the tortured body of Christ and the grief of the Virgin Mary. Generations of readers internalized and shaped the "cultures of piety" represented by these works. The editors of this text collect seven examples of this literature, all written in the period 1350-1450, one in Anglo-Norman, the remainder in Middle English. The volume contains an appendix containing the original texts of the latter six pieces. The collection illustrates the polyglottal, conflicting and often polemical nature of devotional culture in the Middle Ages. It provides a context for and counterpoint to the "Canterbury Tales" and other classic works of late medieval England. The introduction and the translators' headnotes discuss crucial aspects of the texts' histories and thematics, including the importance of the body in spiritual practices, the development of female patronage and of a wide audience for this literature, and the indivisibility of the political and the religious in medieval times.

Author Biography:

Anne Clark Bartlett is Assistant Professor of English at DePaul University. She is author of Male Authors, Female Readers, also from Cornell. Thomas H. Bestul is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Texts of the Passion.
Release date NZ
June 15th, 1999
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Contributors
  • Edited by Anne Clark Bartlett
  • Edited by Thomas H. Bestul
Pages
272
Dimensions
152x229x25
ISBN-13
9780801434433
Product ID
12683346

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