The Powers of the Holy: Religion, Politics, and Gender in Late Medieval English Culture - Softcover

Aers, David; Staley, Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 027101542X ISBN 13: 9780271015422

Publisher: Penn State University Press, 1996

Synopsis

This study explores the ways in which the language and images of Christian devotion in late 14th-century England were inextricably bound up with a variety of social and political relations. It examines devotional and purely literary texts to analyse the way in which the humanity of Christ was represented and the spiritual and political implications for different approaches.

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From the Back Cover

This book explores certain configurations of holiness, especially representations of Christ's humanity, and certain configurations of gender, especially as they are used in some of Chaucer's explorations of contemporary political conflicts.

About the Author

David Aers is Professor of English and Religion at Duke University. He is the co-editor of The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies and author of, most recently, Culture and History, 1350–1600 (1992) and Community, Gender, and Individual Identity: English Writing, 1360–1430 (1988).

Lynn Staley is Harrington and Shirley Drake Professor of the Humanities at Colgate University. Her most recent books include Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions (Penn State, 1994), The Shepheardes Calendar: An Introduction (Penn State, 1990), and an edition of The Book of Margery Kempe (1996)

About this edition

• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 027101542X
• ISBN 13: 9780271015422
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320