Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ : A Reading Text Paperback / softback
Edited by Michael G. (Department of English, Queen's College, CUNY (United States)) Sargent
Part of the Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies series
Paperback / softback
Description
Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ is a particularly important work of late medieval English vernacular theology: it is seen as a landmark in the history of the official campaign to control lay access to vernacular paramystical texts.
It is made available here for the first time in a critical modern paperback edition, complete with a short introduction, explanatory notes and a glossary.
The volume is not merely a revision of Michael Sargent’s 1992 Garland best-text edition, now out of print, but a new full critical edition that uses the Garland volume only as its starting-point.
Although based on the same manuscript, this new edition includes the results of a complete collation of the 71 known surviving manuscripts and early prints.Nicholas Love’s Mirror was a Middle English translation of the pseudo-Bonaventuran Meditationes Vitae Christi.
The Latin text, probably written at the end of the thirteenth century or the beginning of the fourteenth, was a popular book of devotions on the events of the life and passion of Christ characteristic of late-medieval Franciscan spirituality.
The Introduction places Love's Mirror, properly, at the centre of current scholarly discussion of the development of vernacular theology in late medieval England.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:04/01/2005
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- ISBN:9780859897419
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:04/01/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780859897419
