Late Medieval Devotional Compilations in England

Marleen Cre, Diana Denissen, Denis Renevey, Vincent Gillespie, Ralph Hanna, Ian Johnson, Annie Sutherland, Margaret Connolly, Sarah Macmillan, Mami Kanno, Nicole Rice, Sheri Smith, Brandon Alakas, Michael G. Sargent, Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa, Laura Saetveit Miles, Anne Mouron, A.S. Lazikani, and Nicholas Watson.

ISBN 10: 2503574777 / ISBN 13: 9782503574776

Published by Brepols, 2020

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Late Medieval Devotional Compilations in England
• Publisher: Brepols
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503574777
• ISBN 13: 9782503574776
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medieval Studies

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Synopsis

Stretching the canon of medieval literature in English to include devotional compilations.

Devotional compilations were the staple spiritual food for lay and religious readers in the late medieval period. As well thought-out assemblages of texts or extracts of texts, they provided readers with material from basic catechetic instruction to advice and tools for the practice of contemplation. Their exploration enables a more sophisticated understanding of the authorial roles played by compilers, the reading practices of their recipients, and the patronage of compilations carried out by religious and secular individuals and communities. It also offers a new window into late medieval English religiosity as well as demonstrating the complexity and creativity associated with compiling activity.

In this volume, leading scholars in the field of medieval English literature consider the role and impact of a substantial number of devotional compilations, offering new evidence about the manuscripts, sources, and contexts that frame this important corpus.