Lay Piety and Religious Discipline in Middle English Literature

Klappentext An examination of spiritual discipline, religious identity, and orthodoxy in Langland and Chaucer. Zusammenfassung In this book Nicole Rice analyses late medieval prose guides that disseminated the idea of religious discipline to a lay audience. By considering the themes of spiritual discipline! religious identity! and orthodoxy in Langland and Chaucer! the study also sheds new light on Piers Plowman and The Canterbury Tales. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Translations of the cloister: regulating spiritual aspiration; 2. Dialogic form and clerical understanding; 3. Lordship, pastoral care, and the Order of Charity; 4. Clerical widows and the reform of preaching; Conclusion: spiritual guides in fifteenth-century books: cultural change and continuity; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Nicole R. Rice, Nicole R. (Yale University Rice, RICE NICOLE R
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.03.2012
• EAN: 9781107404656
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40465-6
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies