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Klappentext 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. It is a most readable text, and Professor Sargent has given us back something of real worth. New Directions M.G S. is to be warmly commended on this fine edition of a major treatise in the vernacular and his book is a welcome addition to the devotional literature of the early 15th century. Revue d'histoire ecclesiastique 2006 The publishers have been generous in their provision of space, and the book is well sized, produced on good-quality paper, with eleven plates (seven colour) which allow a snapshot of the manuscripts."...this will be the definitive edition of Love's text; Sargent's editorial labours have endowed it with a scholarly authority for the twenty-first century matching the ecclesiastical authority it enjoyed in the fifteenth. (Medium Avum, Vol. LXXVI 2007 Michael G. Sargent has produced two editions of Nicholas Love's The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ:.. The Year's Work in English Studies, Vol. 86, No. 1 2007 Sargent's introduction (sixteen pages) is very valuable, because it elucidates the complex circumstances of Love's creation."We believe that all university libraries should obtain a copy of this work. Fifteenth-Century Studies 34 2009 Zusammenfassung 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.
