Devotional literature and practice in medieval England : readers, reading, and reception / edited by Kathryn Vulić, Susan Uselmann, and C. Annette Grisé.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vulić, Kathryn R., 1972- editor.

Uselmann, Susan, editor.

Grisé, C. Annette, editor.

Series:

Disputatio (Turnhout, Belgium) ; v. 29.

Disputatio ; volume 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Devotional literature, English (Middle).

Religion.

History.

England--Religious life and customs--History--To 1500.

England.

England--Religion--To 1500.

Physical Description:

vi, 282 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2016]

Summary:

The book series Disputatio publishes interdisciplinary scholarship on the intellectual cultural and intellectual history of the European Middle Ages. The medieval focus is constructed broadly to encompass a chronology ranging from the end of the classical Roman age to the rise of the modern world. Disputatio seeks to promote scholarly dialogue among the various disciplines that study medieval texts and ideas and their diffusion and reception. This volume recognises that religious writings care deeply about how devotional reading takes place, providing models for improving reading as a way of improving one's ability to worship. The abundant evidence from medieval England suggests a deep interest among devotional writers in documenting, teaching, and circumscribing devotional reading, given the importance of careful reading practices for salvation. This volume therefore draws together a wide range of interests in and approaches to studying the reading and reception of devotional texts in medieval England, from representations of readers and reading in devotional texts, to literary production and reception of devotional texts and images, to manuscripts and early books as devotional objects, to individual readers and patrons of devotional texts. Prefaced by a substantial introduction by the editors - setting the community in its wider religious and cultural environment and against the backdrop of broad historiographical trends - this volume brings together substantial essays based on original research by new and leading scholars in the field of medieval English studies. This collection (and indeed, many of the individual articles) brings into dialogue a number of traditional disciplinary approaches - early and late Medieval English literary studies, gender studies, manuscript studies, and religious studies. It strives to reflect trends in current scholarship of breaking down disciplinary boundaries and exploring the relationships between and among not only analytical and critical perspectives, but also the kinds of evidence examined. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Devotional reading in late medieval England : problems of definition / Susan Uselmann

'Þe lettere sleeþ' : lollards, literalism, and the definition of bad readers / Anna Lewis

Speculum vitae and 'lewed' reading / Kathryn Vulić

Representing reading in Dives and pauper / Elizabeth Schirmer

Meditative reading and the vespers antiphon in the monastic office for Saint Cuthbert / Karmen Lenz

Lectio divina and scriptural reading in Syon's vernacular printed books / C. Annette Grisé

A matter of convenience : Nicholas Love's Mirror of private devotional reading / Susan Uselmann

Printing, propaganda, and profit : Richard Pynson and the Life of St. Radegund / Christina M. Carlson

'For the prouffyte of other' : Lady Margaret Beufort and the female reader as translator in The mirrour of golde to the synfull soule / Stephanie Morley

Bodleian Library MS Holkham Miscellany 41 and the modelling of women's devotion / Catherine Innes-Parker

Afterword: Adaption, negotiation and transformation / C. Annette Grisé

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9782503530291

250353029X

OCLC:

970655733

Publisher Number:

9782503530291