Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature
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Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature

Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk

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Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature

Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk

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In what varieties of ways is late medieval literature inflected by spiritual insight and desires? What weaves of literary cloth especially suit religious insight? In this collection dedicated to Elizabeth D. Kirk, Emeritus Professor of English at Brown University, several renowned scholars assess those related issues in a range of Medieval texts.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
ISBN
9781137089519
Topic
Literatura
Subtopic
Crítica literaria medieval y moderna temprana

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Mindful Spirit
  7. "Sweet Jesus"
  8. Amazons and Ursulines
  9. Misbehaving God: The Case of the Christ Child in MS Laud Misc. 108 "Infancy of Jesus Christ"
  10. "Als I Lay in a Winteris Nyt" and the Second Death
  11. Inscribing Mentalities: Alan ofLille, the De Lisle Psalter Cherub, and Franciscan Meditation
  12. The Middle English St. Francis: Text and Context
  13. "Wols-hede and outhorne": The Ban, Bare Life, and Power in the Passion Plays
  14. The Failure of Emotion and Reason in the York Cycle
  15. John Wyclif-All Women's Friend?
  16. St. Erkenwald: Narrative and Narrative Artistry
  17. "The Greatest Riddle of the B Text" of Piers Plowman: Why Langland Did Not Scrap the A Vita
  18. Souls that Matter: The Gendering of the Soul in Piers Plowman
  19. The Necessity of History: The Example of Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale"
  20. Host Desecration, Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale," and Prague 1389
  21. "Cast Thy Bread upon the Waters": A Paradigm from Ecclesiastes in Gower's "Apollonius of Tyre"
  22. Illiterate Memory and Spiritual Experience: Margery Kempe, the Liturgy, and the "Woman in the Crowd"
  23. The Family of Origin versus the Human Family: Universal Love in Literature
  24. About the Contributors