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Devotional Literature and Practice in Medieval England: Readers, Reading, and Reception

Devotional Literature and Practice in Medieval England: Readers, Reading, and Reception

Uselmann, Susan
Vulic, Kathryn R.
Grisé, C. Annette

Hardcover

Series: Disputatio, Book 29

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryReligion General Christian Living

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ISBN10: 250353029X
ISBN13: 9782503530291
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: Jan 17 2017
Pages: 284
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
This volume recognises that religious writings care deeply about how devotional reading takes place, providing models for improving reading as a way of improving one's ability to worship. The abundant evidence from medieval England suggests a deep interest among devotional writers in documenting, teaching, and circumscribing devotional reading, given the importance of careful reading practices for salvation. This volume therefore draws together a wide range of interests in and approaches to studying the reading and reception of devotional texts in medieval England, from representations of readers and reading in devotional texts, to literary production and reception of devotional texts and images, to manuscripts and early books as devotional objects, to individual readers and patrons of devotional texts. Prefaced by a substantial introduction by the editors - setting the community in its wider religious and cultural environment and against the backdrop of broad historiographical trends - this volume brings together substantial essays based on original research by new and leading scholars in the field of medieval English studies. This collection (and indeed, many of the individual articles) brings into dialogue a number of traditional disciplinary approaches - early and late medieval English literary studies, gender studies, manuscript studies, and religious studies. It strives to reflect trends in current scholarship of breaking down disciplinary boundaries and exploring the relationships between and among not only analytical and critical perspectives, but also the kinds of evidence examined.

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