Miserere mei : the penitential Psalms in late medieval and early modern England / Clare Costley King'oo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King'oo, Clare Costley.

Series:

Reformations.

Reformations : medieval and early modern

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Penitential Psalms--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History.

Penitential Psalms.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2012.

Summary:

King'oo examines the critical importance of the Penitential Psalms in England between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Figures

Abbreviations

Other Conventions

Acknowledgments

Introduction

On the Origins of a Genre

Penitential Hermeneutics

Doing Penance and Praying for the Dead

Overview of Miserere Mei

Chapter One: Illustrating the Penitential Psalms

King David, Sinner/Psalmwriter

Sexualizing Sin

Adultery, Catechesis, and Pedagogy

Chapter Two: The Conflict over Penance

Reading Suffering in the Penitential Psalms

John Fisher and the Economics of Penance

Martin Luther's Metanoia

Chapter Three: Plotting Reform

Sir Thomas Wyatt among the Evangelicals

Richard Maidstone, Thomas Brampton, and John Croke: The Penitential Psalms as Common Property

Wyatt's Paraphrase, David's Conversion(s)

Chapter Four: From Penance to Politics

Repentance, Paranoia, and Consent in Elizabeth's Prayer Book

John Stubbs, Theodore Beza, and the Importation of Genevan Exclusivity

Chapter Five: Parody and Piety

Move Over, David, or, George Gascoigne's De Profundis

Sir John Harington's Antipenitential Hermeneutics

Reappropriation in the Odes of Richard Verstegan

Afterword

Appendix

Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780268158682

0268158681

9780268084615

0268084610

OCLC:

822019823