Author: Joseph Rawson LumbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dialect literature, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Ratis raving
Author: Joseph Rawson LumbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dialect literature, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Ratis Raving
Author: J. R. LumbyPublisher: Early English Text Society
ISBN: 9780859916516
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Death and Purgatory in Middle English Didactic Poetry
Author: Takami MatsudaPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780859915076
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The concept of Purgatory in Middle English didactic writings is explored through examination of visions of the afterlife, sermons, homiletic treatises, and lyrics. Purgatory has been the focus of much literary and historical attention since Jacques Le Goff's important Naissance du Purgatoire(1981), but this is the first book-length study to trace its development, reception and influence in Middle English literature.Following a survey of the doctrine of Purgatory and its cultural reception, the book explores the two major Middle English genres in which it is discussed, visions of the afterlife, and didactic andhomiletic treatises on death. In a detailed examination of these, along with sermons and lyrics, the author argues that such writings tend to be structured around the dualism of salvation and damnation, heaven and hell, with no intermediary alternative; at the same time the efficacy of intercession in the alleviation of suffering is repeatedly stressed. The book goes on to suggest that the influence of Purgatory was to provide a more pragmatic and optimistic attitude towards death and the afterlife, as reflected in such poems as the Vernon lyrics. TAKAMI MATSUDAis Associate Professor in the Department of English and American Literature at Keio University.
Medieval Children
Author: Nicholas OrmePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300097542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Looks at the lives of children, from birth to adolescence, in medieval England.
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