Elizabeth of Spalbeck, Christina Mirabilis and Marie d'Oignies were three of the famous late 12th- and early 13th-century holy women from the region of Brabant and Liège. Their life stories were read throughout later medieval Europe. This is the first critical edition of these L…
Elizabeth of Spalbeck, Christina Mirabilis and Marie d'Oignies were three of the famous late 12th- and early 13th-century holy women from the region of Brabant and Liège. Their life stories were read throughout later medieval Europe. This is the first critical edition of these L…
This volume presents pioneering studies on the most important English tradition of representing Christ's life which reshape our understanding of late medieval vernacular and religious textual culture.
Introduction -- Prudentian personification. Consecratus manu : men forming gods forming men ; How to fight like a girl : Christianizing personification in the Psychomachia -- Neoplatonic personification. Ex uno omnia : Plato's forms and daemons ; Oh, nurse! The Boethian daemon -…
"Despite all of their extravagant mortuary forms-chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, Purgatory itself-people in medieval England were unable to talk about death. That is, their inability was not exactly religious, but more philosophic…
People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory--but they were still unable to talk about death. Their inability wasn't due to religion, but philosophy: saying someone is dead is nonsense, as the p…
Historical dialectology in the digital age
Sandy Bardsley examines the complex relationship between speech and gender in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and engages debates on the static nature of women's status after the Black Death. Focusing on England, Venomous Tongues uses a combination of legal, literary, and…
"This volume offers newly translated texts that exemplify the two most important traditions of Arthurian literature in the Middle Ages. These selections emphasize the connection between secular and religious understandings of chivalry that is the most distinctive quality of medi…
An examination of French to English translation in medieval England, through the genre of the prologue.
"Shadow and Substance is the first book to present a sustained examination of the relationship between Eucharistic controversy and English drama across the Reformation divide. In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Jay Zysk contends that the Eucharist is not just a devotion…
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I Description -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 About this Book -- 1.2 English and Its Origins -- 1.3 External History -- 1.4 Internal History -- 1.5 Introducing English Historical L…
