Nicholas Love's Mirror and late medieval devotio-literary culture: theological politics and devotional practice in fifteenth-century England
"Nicholas Love's Mirror has received suprisingly little scholarly attention and is often contextualized in terms of its role in the Wycliffite controversy. David Falls investigates new possibilities for understanding the composition, circulation, function and use of Love's Mirror by e...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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London New York
Routledge
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Love, Nicholas -1424, Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christi
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Love, Nicholas (active 1410) Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christi
B Jesus Christ Devotional literature B Devotional literature, English (Middle) History and criticism B Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) History and criticism |
| Summary: | "Nicholas Love's Mirror has received suprisingly little scholarly attention and is often contextualized in terms of its role in the Wycliffite controversy. David Falls investigates new possibilities for understanding the composition, circulation, function and use of Love's Mirror by examining both the textual modification and additions, presenting a nuanced picture not only of the Mirror's production, circulation and function, but also the dynamic and flourishing devotio-literary culture of late medieval England" -- Preface -- Introduction: a book of ghostly fruyte -- 1) Prior life: Nicholas Love and the Meditationes vitae Christi -- 2) "þou þat art solitarye": the "Mirror" and the charterhouse -- 3) "At þe instance þe prayer of some deuovte soules": Love's Mirror and the Carthusian affinity -- 4) A tale of two mirrors: functional diversity and the regulation of female piety in the Mirror of the blessed life and the Speculum devotorum -- 5) "Circa annum domini millesimum quadringentesimum": The "Mirror" and the Lancastrian spiritual aristocracy -- 6) Love's Mirror and the fifteenth-century cultural elite -- Bibliography -- Manuscript index |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| ISBN: | 1472420799 |