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This volume presents for the first time a Middle English Life of Christ, with additional religious advice, written in the early fifteenth century by a Carthusian monk at the Sheen Charterhouse for a nun at the nearby Bridgettine Syon Abbey. Both the Sheen Charterhouse and Syon were recent royal foundations, established by Henry V. The Mirror is an important example of the devotional works produced to satisfy demand among laity as well as professed religious, wanting to read lives of Christ in the years following the repressive legislation of Archbishop Arundel (1409), which placed severe restrictions on biblical translation into English, intended to limit the spread of heresy. The Mirror, written in the tradition of the highly successful translation by another Carthusian, Nicholas Love, of Pseudo-Bonaventure's life of Christ, testifies to the demand for such material in pious households

Old English literature --- Devotional literature, English (Middle) --- Jesus Christ --- Carthusians --- Spiritual life --- Jesus Christ - Meditations - Early works to 1800

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Devotional texts in late medieval England were notable for their flamboyant piety and their preoccupation with the tortured body of Christ and the grief of the Virgin Mary. Generations of readers internalized and shaped the "cultures of piety" represented by these works. Anne Clark Bartlett and Thomas H. Bestul here gather seven examples of this literature, all written in the period 1350-1450, one in Anglo-Norman, the remainder in Middle English. (The volume includes an appendix containing the original texts of the latter six pieces.) The collection illustrates the polyglottal, conflicting, and often polemical nature of devotional culture in the Middle Ages. It provides a valuable context for and interesting counterpoint to the Canterbury Tales and other classic works of late medieval England. The introduction and the translators' headnotes discuss crucial aspects of the texts' histories and thematics, including the importance of the body in spiritual practices, the development of female patronage and of a wide audience for this literature, and the indivisibility of the political and the religious in medieval times.

Christian life --- Piety --- English literature --- Devotional literature, English (Middle) --- History --- Sources. --- History of doctrines --- England --- Religious life and customs

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Devotional literature, English (Middle) --- 271.791 --- English language --- -Devotional literature, English (Middle) --- #GROL:SEMI-248.2 --- Devotional literature, English --- Devotional literature, Middle English --- English devotional literature, Middle --- Middle English devotional literature --- English literature --- Germanic languages --- Anachoreten. Stylieten. Kluizenaars. Eremieten. Reclusen --- Texts --- 271.791 Anachoreten. Stylieten. Kluizenaars. Eremieten. Reclusen --- Devotional literature, English (Middle).

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This book brings together the most current interpretations of the Wooing Group from scholars currently working on the fields of medieval spirituality, gender, and the anchoritic tradition, providing literary, theological, linguistic, and cultural context for the works associated with the Wooing Group (a collection of texts in English written by an unknown author in the late twelfth to early thirteenth centuries).

English literature --- Devotional literature, English (Middle) --- Monastic and religious life of women --- Monastic life --- Monasticism and religious orders for women --- Spiritual life --- History and criticism. --- History --- Christianity

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Pastoral and devotional literature flourished thoughout the Middle Ages, and its growth and transmutations form the focus of this collection. The reading and devotional use of texts by women and solitaries is also considered. The essays therefore form an appropriate tribute to the work of Bella Millett.

Pastoral theology --- Pastoral care --- Devotional literature, English (Middle) --- History --- History and criticism. --- Care of souls --- Cure of souls --- Church work --- Pastoral counseling --- Ministry --- Pastoral office and work --- Theology, Pastoral --- Bella Millett. --- Essays. --- Medieval. --- Pastoral Care. --- Vernacular Spirituality.