Devotion to the name of Jesus in medieval English literature, c.1100-c.1530 / Denis Renevey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Renevey, Denis, author.

Contributor:

Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.

Series:

Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture

Language:

English

English, Middle (1100-1500)

French

Latin

Subjects (All):

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

English literature.

Christian life in literature.

English literature--Middle English.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xiv, 249 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

English text, with passages in Middle English, French, and Latin, with parallel English translations from the French and Latin.

Summary:

"Devotion to the Name of Jesus in Medieval English Literature, c. 1100 - c. 1530 offers a broad but detailed study of the practice of devotion to the Name of Jesus in late medieval England. It focuses on key texts written in Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English that demonstrate the way in which devotion moved from monastic circles to a lay public in the late medieval period. It argues that devotion to the Name is a core element of Richard Rolle's contemplative practice, although devotion to the Name circulated in trilingual England at an earlier stage. The volume investigates to what extent the 1274 Second Lyon Council had an impact in the spread of the devotion in England, and beyond. It also offers illuminating evidence about how Margery Kempe and her scribes used devotion, how Eleanor Hull made it an essential component of her meditative sequence seven days of the week, and how Lady Margaret Beaufort worked towards its instigation as an official feast."--Back jacket cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Analytic Overview

The Development of the Devotion to the Name of Jesus: Broader Religious Contexts

Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Cultural Contexts

Pan-European and English Perspectives: A Brief Survey

Chapter Overview

1. Jesus and His Name: The Emergence of a New Devotional Attitude

Bernard and the Invention of the Devotion in the West

Biblical and Early Christian Antecedents

The Anselmian Contribution: The Meditatio ad concitandum timorem

Conclusion

2. The Dulcis lesu memoria Tradition and the Devotion to the Name of Jesus

The Latin Dulcis lesu memoria

Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English Adaptations of Dulcis lesu memoria

The Second Council of Lyon (1274) and its Aftermath

Guibert of Tournai's Sermones de nomine lesu (De laude melliflui nominis domini nostri)

Thirteenth-Century Manifestations of the Devotion to the Name of Jesus in England

3. The Name and Spiritual Song-Anglo-Norman Lyrics, Richard Rolle, and the Fourteenth-Century Tradition

Anglo-Norman Adaptations

Middle English Versions of Dulcis lesu memoria

Richard Rolle, the Name of Jesus and Heavenly Song: The Latin Writings

Rolle's Legacy: Middle English Writings

Analogues to Rolle's Devotion to the Name: Henry Suso

Walter Hilton on the Use of the Name of Jesus

4. Rollean Afterlives: Fifteenth-Century Texts, Compilations, and Manuscripts

The Oleum effusum Compilation

Manuscript Evidence

Richard Methley and the Devotion to the Name

Para-liturgical Evidence

The Name of Jesus in Devotional Compilations: The Chastising of God's Children and Disce mori

Pore Caitif Orthodoxy and Lollard Interests in the Holy Name

5. The Book of Margery Kempe, Eleanor Hull's Meditation, and Fifteenth-Century Devotion to the Name

The Book of Margery Kempe and the Name of Jesus

`she shalle ber a sonne pat ye shalle calle Ihesu': Eleanor Hull's Meditation on the Name

Devotions, Benefactions, and the Sermon for the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus

Thomas Rotherham (1423-1500)

Lady Margaret Beaufort (c.1441-1509)

The Sermon for the Holy Name of Jesus.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-242) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780192894083

0192894080

OCLC:

1338655522

Publisher Number:

99993274782