Mirror to Devout People - Speculum Devotorum

Informationen zum Autor Prof. Paul J. Patterson is an Associate Professor of English at Saint Joseph's University. His research interests include devotional writing in late medieval England and the transmission of mystical writings from the Continent to England. Klappentext This edition of A Mirror to Devout People presents for the first time a Middle English Life of Christ, with additional religious advice, written in the early fifteenth century by a Carthusian monk at the Sheen Charterhouse for a sister at the nearby Bridgettine Syon Abbey. Both the Sheen Charterhouse and Syon were recent royal foundations, established by Henry V. The Mirror is an important example of the devotional works produced to satisfy demand among laity as well as professed religious, wanting to read lives of Christ in the years following the repressive legislation of Archbishop Arundel (1409), which placed severe restrictions on biblical translation into English, intended to limit the spread of heresy. The Mirror, written in the tradition of the highly successful translation by another Carthusian, Nicholas Love, of Pseudo-Bonaventure's life of Christ, testifies to the demand for such material in pious households. Zusammenfassung This is the first full critical edition of a fifteenth-century devotional work written for a Bridgettine nun at Syon Abbey by a Carthusian monk at the Sheen Charterhouse. This version of the life of Christ was owned by both monastic and lay readers and testifies to the popularity of devotional reading among a mixed audience.

Product details

• Authors: Paul J. (Associate Professor of English Patterson
• Assisted by: Paul J Patterson (Editor), Paul J. (Associate Professor of English Patterson (Editor), Patterson Paul J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2016
• EAN: 9780198744979
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874497-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Early English Text Society Original Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, History, English, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Christian life & practice, Medieval History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Christian life and practice, RELIGION / Christian Living / General, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval