Ancrene Wisse and vernacular spirit from pastoral literature to vernacular spirituality
Provides an introduction to "Ancrene Wisse", one of the most important works in English of the thirteenth century. This book offers a fresh contextualisation which engages with the history of lay piety and vernacular spirituality in the Middle Ages. This book is innovative in that it provi...
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| Language: | Inglés |
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Cardiff
University of Wales Press
2007
[Cardiff, Wales] : 2008 |
| Series: | Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages (University of Wales Press).
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009660931106719 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. The religious context
- 1. The Fourth Lateran Council
- 2. Eucharist theology
- 3. The female religious movement: anchorites and beguines
- 4. Anchorite spirituality
- 5. Lay piety
- Part II. Pastoralia and vernacular pastoral literature
- 6. Pastoralia
- 7. The rhetoric of preaching
- 8. Beguine sermons
- 9. Pastoral literature
- Part III. Ancrene Wisse: text and context
- 10. The rhetoric of Ancrene Wisse; i. Structure; ii. Exempla and similitudines
- 11. Ancrene Wisse: asceticism and contemplation
- 12. Reading Ancrene Wisse as vernacular spirituality
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
