John Capgrave's fifteenth century
by Winstead, Karen A., (Karen Anne)
"John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century is the first book to explore the major themes of Capgrave's writings and to relate those themes to fifteenth-century political and cultural debates. Focusing on Capgrave's later works, especially those in English and addressed to lay audiences, it teases out thematic threads that are closely interwoven in Capgrave's Middle English oeuvre: piety, intellectualism, gender, and social responsibility. It refutes the still-prevalent view of Capgrave as a religious a…
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- Full title :John Capgrave's fifteenth century / Karen A. Winstead.
Summary
"John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century is the first book to explore the major themes of Capgrave's writings and to relate those themes to fifteenth-century political and cultural debates. Focusing on Capgrave's later works, especially those in English and addressed to lay audiences, it teases out thematic threads that are closely interwoven in Capgrave's Middle English oeuvre: piety, intellectualism, gender, and social responsibility. It refutes the still-prevalent view of Capgrave as a religious and political reactionary and shows, rather, that he used traditional genres to promote his own independent viewpoint on some of the most pressing controversies of his day, including debates over vernacular theology, orthodoxy and dissent, lay (and particularly female) spirituality, and the state of the kingdom under Henry VI." "The book situates Capgrave as a figure both in the vibrant literary culture of East Anglia and in European intellectual history. John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century offers a fresh view of orthodoxy and dissent in late medieval England and will interest students of hagiography, religious and cultural history, and Lancastrian politics and society."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:©2007.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Pennsylvania Press
- Place of Publication:Philadelphia
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2007.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiii, 231 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0812239776, 9780812239775
- oclc:ocm70259035
- LC Classification:PR1845
- Dewey Decimal:828/.209
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