Prophetic Song
The Psalms As Moral Discourse in Late Medieval England
1st Edition
Published on 11. November 2016
336 pages
978-1-5128-0331-0 (ISBN)
Description
A study of the Psalter's influence on the language of prescription and proscription, injunction, command, censure, reproof, and other ethical instruction in late medieval England, as well as exegesis and meditation that clearly had a homiletic or polemic bias. Among the themes is the distinction between the private and public use the Psalms were put to, and the deliberate blurring of that distinction to illustrate the unity between individual salvation and the reform of society.
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Edition
Reprint 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
4 illus.
4 illus.
ISBN-13
978-1-5128-0331-0 (9781512803310)
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Preface: "...Beatus vitres techyng"
- A Note on Psalm Texts and Middle English Quotations
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Interpreting the Psalms
- Chapter 1. David the "Maker"
- Chapter 2. Imitating David
- Part II. Psalm Discourse
- Chapter 3. David as a Model of Compunction
- Chapter 4. The Psalms as Models for Middle English Poetry
- Part III. Psalm Ideology
- Chapter 5. Two Versions of Captivity: Lydgate, the Lollards, and Psalm Complaint
- Chapter 6. William Langland, Radical Psalmist
- Afterword
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
