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Pastoral theology --- Pastoral care --- Devotional literature, English (Middle) --- History --- History and criticism.

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The politics of Middle English parables examines the dynamic intersection of fiction, theology and social practice in late-medieval England. Parables occupy a prominent place in Middle English literature, appearing in dream visions and story collections as well as in lives of Christ and devotional treatises. While most scholarship approaches the translated stories as stable vehicles of Christian teaching, this book highlights the many variations and points of conflict across Middle English renditions of the same story. In parables related to labour, social inequality, charity and penance, the book locates a creative theological discourse through which writers attempted to re-construct Christian belief and practice. Analysis of these diverse retellings reveals not what a given parable meant in a definitive sense but rather how Middle English parables inscribe the ideologies, power structures and cultural debates of late-medieval Christianity.

Parables. --- English literature --- Parables in literature. --- Parables --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Exempla --- Homiletical illustrations --- Tales --- Allegories --- Fables --- Middle English. --- History and criticism. --- Bible. --- Bible --- Devotional literature, English (Middle). --- Devotional literature, English (Middle) --- Literature and literary studies. --- Literary studies: classical, early and medieval. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. --- Biography, Literature & Literary studies --- Devotional literature, English --- Devotional literature, Middle English --- English devotional literature, Middle --- Middle English devotional literature --- Literature: history & criticism --- Literary studies: general --- Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval.

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Barking Abbey (founded c. 666) is hugely significant for those studying the literary production by and patronage of medieval women. It had one of the largest libraries of any English nunnery, and a history of women's education from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Dissolution; it was also the home of women writers of Latin and Anglo-Norman works, as well as of many Middle English manuscript books. The essays in this volume map its literary history, offering a wide-ranging examination of its liturgical, historio-hagiographical, devotional, doctrinal, and administrative texts, with a particular focus on the important hagiographies produced there during the twelfth century. It thus makes a major contribution to the literary and cultural history of medieval England and a rich resource for the teaching of women's texts. Professor Jennifer N. Brown teaches at Marymount Manhattan College; Professor Donna Alfano Bussell teaches at University of Illinois-Springfield. Contributors: Diane Auslander, Alexandra Barratt, Emma Bérat, Jennifer N. Brown, Donna A. Bussell, Thelma Fenster, Stephanie Hollis, Thomas O'Donnell, Delbert Russell, Jill Stevenson, Kay Slocum, Lisa Weston, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Anne B. Yardley.

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"Fruit of the Orchard sheds light on how Catherine of Siena served as a visible and widespread representative of English piety becoming a part of the devotional landscape of the period. By analyzing a variety of texts, including monastic and lay, complete and excerpted, shared and private, author Jennifer N. Brown considers how the visionary prophet and author was used to demonstrate orthodoxy, subversion, and heresy. Tracing the book tradition of Catherine of Siena, as well as investigating the circulation of manuscripts, Brown explores how the various perceptions of the Italian saint were reshaped and understood by an English readership. By examining the practice of devotional reading, she reveals how this sacred exercise changed through a period of increased literacy, the rise of the printing press, and religious turmoil."--

Devotional literature, English (Middle) --- Transmission of texts --- Literary transmission --- Manuscript transmission --- Textual transmission --- Criticism, Textual --- Editions --- Manuscripts --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Catherine, --- Benincasa, Caterina, --- Catalina, --- Catarina, --- Caterina, --- Caterina da Siena, --- Catharina, --- Catharine, --- Chatarina, --- Chaterina, --- Katharina, --- Katherina, --- Siena, Caterina da, --- Manuscripts. --- History and criticism --- History --- E-books --- 091:235.3 --- 091 <41> --- 094:235.3 --- 094 <41> --- 091:235.3 Vitae en passionalen--(handschriften) --- Vitae en passionalen--(handschriften) --- 094 <41> Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 094:235.3 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Hagiografie --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Hagiografie --- 091 <41> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Catherine of Siena. --- book. --- convent. --- culture. --- devotional. --- history. --- literature. --- women's reading. --- Italy. --- England. --- Angleterre --- England --- Vie religieuse. --- Religious life and customs. --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra --- Italia --- Italian Republic --- Italianska republika --- Italʹi͡anskai͡a Rėspublika --- Italie --- Italien --- Italii͡ --- Italii͡a Respublikasi --- Italiĭsʹka Respublika --- Itālija --- Itālijas Republika --- Italijos Respublika --- Italikē Dēmokratia --- Īṭāliy --- Italiya Respublikasi --- It'allia --- It'allia Konghwaguk --- İtalya --- İtalya Cumhuriyeti --- Iṭalyah --- Iṭalye --- Itaria --- Itaria Kyōwakoku --- Jumhūrīyah al-Īṭālīyah --- Kgl. Italienische Regierung --- Königliche Italienische Regierung --- Laško --- Lýðveldið Ítalía --- Olasz Köztársaság --- Olaszország --- Regno d'Italia --- Repubblica italiana --- Republiḳah ha-Iṭalḳit --- Włochy --- Yidali --- Yidali Gongheguo --- Italy --- Christian spirituality --- Christian church history --- Literature --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- Catherine of Siena --- anno 1200-1799