
Middle English Devotional Compilations
Composing Imaginative Variations in Late Medieval England
Diana Denissen(Author)
University of Wales Press
Published on 15. November 2019
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-78683-476-8 (ISBN)
Description
Middle English devotional compilations - consisting of a series of texts or extracts of texts that have intentionally been put together to constitute new and unified devotional texts - have often been approached as complex collections of source texts that need to be linked with their originals. Middle English Devotional Compilations argues that the study of compilations should move beyond the disentanglement of their sources. This publication approaches compiling as a literary activity and an active way of shaping the medieval text, aiming to nuance scholarly discussion about compiling by putting greater emphasis on the literary instead of the technical aspects of compiling activity. In addition to describing the additions, omissions and other types of adaptations that compilers made to their source texts, Middle English Devotional Compilations highlights the nature and function of compiling activity in late medieval England. Furthermore, this monograph will examine three major but understudied Middle English devotional compilations in depth: the Pore Caitif, The Tretyse of Love and A Talkyng of the Love of God.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
No
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78683-476-8 (9781786834768)
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Middle English Devotional Compilations
Composing Imaginative Variations in Late Medieval England
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Diana Denissen completed her PhD in Medieval English Literature at the University of Lausanne (2017), and is a project member of the Swiss National Science Foundation Project, `Late Medieval Religiosity in England: The Evidence of Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Devotional Compilations'.
Content
Series Editors' Preface
Volume Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
Abbreviations
1. Compiling Styles and Strategies
2. The Pore Caitif
3. The Tretyse of Love
4. A Talkyng of the Love of God
Afterword: Without the Multiplication of Many Books?
Bibliography
Appendix: A transcription of `ze that wollen lerne to loue god rede this litill scripte'
Index
Volume Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
Abbreviations
1. Compiling Styles and Strategies
2. The Pore Caitif
3. The Tretyse of Love
4. A Talkyng of the Love of God
Afterword: Without the Multiplication of Many Books?
Bibliography
Appendix: A transcription of `ze that wollen lerne to loue god rede this litill scripte'
Index