Author: Agnes Baillie Cunninghame DunbarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian saints
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A Dictionary of Saintly Women
Author: Agnes Baillie Cunninghame DunbarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian saints
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Anglo-Saxon Saints Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England
Author: Cynthia Turner CampPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843844028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives. The past was ever present in later medieval England, as secular and religious institutions worked to recover (or create) originary narratives that could guarantee, they hoped, their political and spiritual legitimacy. Anglo-SaxonEngland, in particular, was imagined as a spiritual "golden age" and a rich source of precedent, for kings and for the monasteries that housed early English saints' remains. This book examines the vernacular hagiography produced in a monastic context, demonstrating how writers, illuminators, and policy-makers used English saints (including St Edmund) to re-envision the bonds between ancient spiritual purity and contemporary conditions. Treating history and ethical practice as inseparable, poets such as Osbern Bokenham, Henry Bradshaw, and John Lydgate reconfigured England's history through its saints, engaging with contemporary concerns about institutional identity, authority, and ethics. Cynthia Turner Camp is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia.
Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation
Author: Abigail BrundinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317001060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Vittoria Colonna was one of the best known and most highly celebrated female poets of the Italian Renaissance. Her work went through many editions during her lifetime, and she was widely considered by her contemporaries to be highly skilled in the art of constructing tightly controlled and beautifully modulated Petrarchan sonnets. In addition to her literary contacts, Colonna was also deeply involved with groups of reformers in Italy before the Council of Trent, an involvement which was to have a profound effect on her literary production. In this study, Abigail Brundin examines the manner in which Colonna's poetry came to fulfil, in a groundbreaking and unprecedented way, a reformed spiritual imperative, disseminating an evangelical message to a wide audience reading vernacular literature, and providing a model of spiritual verse which was to be adopted by later poets across the peninsula. She shows how, through careful management of an appropriate literary persona, Colonna's poetry was able to harness the power of print culture to extend its appeal to a much broader audience. In so doing this book manages to provide the vital link between the two central facets of Vittoria Colonna's production: her poetic evangelism, and her careful construction of a gendered identity within the literary culture of her age. The first full length study of Vittoria Colonna in English for a century, this book will be essential reading for scholars interested in issues of gender, literature, religious reform or the dynamics of cultural transmission in sixteenth-century Italy. It also provides an excellent background and contextualisation to anyone wishing to read Colonna's writings or to know more about her role as a mediator between the worlds of courtly Petrachism and religious reform.
Messias Puer: Christian Knorr von Rosenroth’s Lost Exegesis of Kabbalistic Christianity
Author: Anna M. VilenoPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004443428
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 629
Book Description
The Messias puer is the recovered last work of Knorr von Rosenroth, the most prolific Christian Kabbalist in the sSeventeenth Ccentury. After introducing Knorr’s life and work, the book provides a critical edition of the manuscript and an annotated translation.
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: Arthurian Literature XVI
Author: James P. CarleyPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859915311
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
`An indispensable component of any historical or Arthurian library.' NOTES AND QUERIES
The Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
The Athenaeum
Author: Athenaeum
Author: The Mystic Mind
Author: Jerome KrollPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113429767X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A fascinating collaboration between a medieval historian and a professor of psychiatry, this enthralling book applies modern biological and psychological research findings to the lives of medieval mystics and ascetics. Drawing upon a database of over 1,400 medieval holy persons and in-depth studies of individual saints, this illuminating study examines the relationship between medieval mystical experiences, the religious practices of mortification; laceration of the flesh, sleep deprivation and extreme starvation, and how these actions produced altered states of consciousness and brain function in the heroic ascetics. Examining and disputing much contemporary writing about the political and gender motivations in the medieval quest for a closeness with God, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest in medieval religion or the effects of self-injurious behaviour on the mind.