Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ : A Reading Text

Michael G. (Department of English Sargent

ISBN 10: 0859897419 / ISBN 13: 9780859897419

Published by Liverpool University Press Jan 2005, 2005

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Neuware - This text is an important work of late medieval English vernacular theology, and is made available here in a critical modern edition, including notes and glossary. The volume is a thoroughly revised edition of the 1992 Garland edition, now out of print, and includes the results of a complete collation of the 71 known surviving manuscripts and early prints. This paperback is a shorter edition than the hardback and is aimed at students and religious readers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ : A Reading Text
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press Jan 2005
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0859897419
• ISBN 13: 9780859897419
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 278W x 216H x 33D millimeters 278 millimeters width by 216 millimeters height by 33 millimeters depth
• Weight: 736 grams

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Synopsis

Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ is a particularly important work of late medieval English vernacular theology: it is seen as a landmark in the history of the official campaign to control lay access to vernacular paramystical texts. It is made available here for the first time in a critical modern paperback edition, complete with a short introduction, explanatory notes and a glossary. The volume is not merely a revision of Michael Sargent’s 1992 Garland best-text edition, now out of print, but a new full critical edition that uses the Garland volume only as its starting-point. Although based on the same manuscript, this new edition includes the results of a complete collation of the 71 known surviving manuscripts and early prints.Nicholas Love’s Mirror was a Middle English translation of the pseudo-Bonaventuran Meditationes Vitae Christi. The Latin text, probably written at the end of the thirteenth century or the beginning of the fourteenth, was a popular book of devotions on the events of the life and passion of Christ characteristic of late-medieval Franciscan spirituality. The Introduction places Love's Mirror, properly, at the centre of current scholarly discussion of the development of vernacular theology in late medieval England.

About the Author

Michael Sargent is Professor in the Department of English, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has published a number of books, including De Cella in Seculum: Religious and Secular Life and Devotion in Late Medieval England (Boydell & Brewer, 1989) and Nicholas Love at Waseda (Boydell & Brewer, 1997).