The wooing of our Lord and The Wooing Group prayers / edited by Catherine Innes-Parker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Innes-Parker, Catherine, 1956- translator, editor.

Series:

Broadview editions

Language:

English

English, Middle (1100-1500)

Subjects (All):

Christian literature, English (Middle).

Devotional literature, English (Middle).

English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500.

English prose literature.

English prose literature--Middle English.

Women--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.

Women.

Women--Conduct of life.

Women--Prayers and devotions.

Monasticism and religious orders for women--Rules.

Monasticism and religious orders for women--Rules--Early works to 1800.

Monasticism and religious orders for women.

Genre:

Prayers and devotions.

Early works.

Rules.

Prayers.

Devotional literature.

Physical Description:

302 pages ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

Wooing Group prayers

Place of Publication:

Peterborough, Ontario : Broadview Press, 2015.

Language Note:

Text in English with Middle English translation on facing pages.

Summary:

"The Wooing of Our Lord occupies a seminal position in the history of English literature and the development of English religious devotion. Dating from the second quarter of the thirteenth century, it is one of a group of texts written in English at a time when the language of literature and the court was Anglo-Norman French, and when the language of church and state was Latin. The Wooing of Our Lord is also a highly skilled composition, a work which combines 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction

A note on the texts editorial practice

Þe wohunge of ure lauerd = The wooing of our Lord

On god ureisun of ure lefdi = A good prayer to our Lady

On wel swuðe god ureisun of God almihti = A most excellent prayer to God Almighty

Þe oreisun of seinte Marie = A prayer to Saint Mary

On lofsong of ure louerde / A hymn to our Lord

Appendix A: Þe oreisun of seinte marie: the prayer to Saint Mary

Appendix B: Bono Oratio: a good prayer

Appendix C: Bonum Lectum: a good reading

Appendix D: The passion of our Lord, Jesus Christ: a vision of the passion

Appendix E: Hypothetical stemma codicae of the Wooing Group

Bibliography.

Notes:

"Þe Wohunge of ure lauerd survives only in BL MS Cotton Titus D.xviii, a manuscript dating from the 1240s. Titus is a small manuscript (157 x 120mm), suitable to be held in the hand for private reading."--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Wohunge of ure lauerd.

Wohunge of ure lauerd. English.

ISBN:

9781551113821

1551113821

OCLC:

898088309