After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England (MEDIEVAL CHURCH STUDIES) (English, French and Latin Edition)

Kantik Ghosh

ISBN 10: 2503534023 / ISBN 13: 9782503534022

Published by Brepols Publishers, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England (MEDIEVAL CHURCH STUDIES) (English, French and Latin Edition)
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503534023
• ISBN 13: 9782503534022
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

England's religious life in the fifteenth century is worthy of sustained, nuanced and meticulous analysis. This book offers a portrait of late medieval English religious theory and praxis that complicates any attempt to present the period as either quivering in the post-traumatic stress of Lollardy, or basking in the autumn sunshine of an uncritical and self-satisfied hierarchy's failure to engage with undoubted European and domestic crises in ecclesiology, pastoral theology, anti-clericalism and lay spiritual emancipation. After Arundel means not just because of or despite Archbishop Arundel (and the repressive legislation associated with him), for it also asks what models and taxonomies will be needed to move beyond Arundel as a fixed star in the firmament of (especially literary) scholarship in the period. It aims to supply the next phase of scholarly exploration of this still often dark continent of religious attitudes and writing with new tools and technical vocabularies, as well as to suggest new directions of travel.

About the Author

Professor Vincent Gillespie is J. R. R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. Professor Gillespie's research considers the broad range of post-Conquest writing in England, with particular interests in literary theory, religious writing, mystical language, and concepts of poetic identity in medieval and early modern writers.