Late Medieval Devotional Compilations in England

2020 Brepols hardcover edition. Unread copy still shrinkwrapped. Contents: 1. Introduction, 2. Building a bestseller: the priest, the peartree, and the compiler, 3. Compilation: the gift that keeps on giving, 4. Theorizing the miscellaneous and the middle english biblical paratext, 5. A talkyng of the loue of god: the art of compilation and the compiled self, 6. Reading late medieval devotional compilations in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, 7. Form and fluidity: reshaping the pore caitif and contemplations of the dread and love of god in oxford, bodleian library, ms bodley 423 and oxford, bodleian library, ms bodley 938, 8. Suffering for love: compilation and asceticism in life of soul, 9. Compilers' voices in cambridge, university library ms ii. 6. 40, 10. A hagiographic compilation of medieval native women in the south english legendaries: oxford, bodleian library, ms bodley 779, 11. Devotional compilations and lollard sanctity in a fifteenth-century anthology, 12. 'When is a man proude. whe[n] he wol not beknowen suche as he is': knowing oneself in london, british library, ms additional 27787, 13. Resignation or rebuttal?: three biblical exempla in richard whitford’s dyuers holy instrucyons and teachynges, 14. 'Desyrable is thi name': fashioning the name of jesus in some devotional compilations, 15. The scale of perfection in devotional compilations, 16. The liber specialis gratiae in a devotional anthology: london, british library, ms harley 494, 17. The living book of cambridge, trinity college ms b.15.42: compilation, meditation, and vision, 18. The desert of religion: a textual and visual compilation, 19. What grace in presence: affective literacies in the chastising of god's children, 20. The terminology and ethos of vernacular compilatio. …