The late-medieval movement into “vernacular theology,” as it has come to be called, inspired many forms of literary expression in all the languages of Europe. Juxtaposing a rich variety of texts, the contributors to this volume consider hagiography, translations of and commentaries on scripture, acc
The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Medieval Religious Literature
✍ Scribed by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Duncan Robertson, Nancy Bradley Warren (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 321
- Series
- The New Middle Ages
- Category
- Library
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✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Rolle Playing: “And the Word Became Flesh”....Pages 15-37
Disruptive Simplicity: Gaytryge’s Translation of Archbishop Thoresby’s Injunctions....Pages 39-58
Excitative Speech: Theories of Emotive Response from Richard Fitzralph to Margery Kempe....Pages 59-79
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Translating Scripture for Ma dame de Champagne: The Old French “Paraphrase” of Psalm 44 (Eructavit)....Pages 83-103
The Mirror and the Rose: Marguerite Porete’s Encounter with the Dieu d’Amours....Pages 105-123
Digulleville’s Pèlerinage de Jésus Christ: A Poem of Courtly Devotion....Pages 125-144
The Royal Vernacular: Poet and Patron in Christine de Pizan’s Charles V and the Sept psaumes allégorisés....Pages 145-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Can God Speak in the Vernacular? On Beatrice of Nazareth’s Flemish Exposition of the Love for God....Pages 185-208
Thieves and Carnivals: Gender in German Dominican Literature of the Fourteenth Century....Pages 209-238
The Erosion of a Monopoly: German Religious Literature in the Fifteenth Century....Pages 239-259
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
Female Patronage of Vernacular Religious Works in Fifteenth-Century Castile: Aristocratic Women and Their Confessors....Pages 263-282
Cisneros and the Translation of Women’s Spirituality....Pages 283-295
“Este gran Dios de las cavallerías” [This Great God of Chivalric Deeds]: St. Teresa’s Performances of the Novels of Chivalry....Pages 297-316
Back Matter....Pages 317-324
✦ Subjects
Medieval Literature; Classical and Antique Literature; European Literature; Christianity; History of Medieval Europe
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