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Companion to The Doctrine of the Hert
Denis Renevey (Ed.)
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Description for Companion to The Doctrine of the Hert
Hardcover. The Doctrine of the Hert was the fifteenth-century English translation of De doctrina cordis, the thirteenth-century Latin devotional treatise addressed to nuns. This book includes ten essays from a group of scholars of medieval religion who discuss the Middle English text alongside its Latin forebear, and other European vernacular translations. Editor(s): Renevey, Denis; Whitehead, Christiania. Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DS; HBLC; HRCS; HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 646.
The Doctrine of the Hert was the fifteenth-century English translation of De doctrina cordis, the thirteenth-century Latin devotional treatise addressed to nuns. The text progressively pairs the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit with seven key actions of the heart, leading readers toward contemplative unity with God. The text was a religious bestseller. It circulated widely throughout Europe between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries and was translated into numerous vernacular versions. This book consists of ten essays from an international group of scholars of medieval religion discussing the Middle English text alongside its Latin forebear, and other European vernacular translations (French, German, Spanish and Middle Dutch). Despite its medieval popularity, The Doctrine of the Hert has largely escaped the attention of scholars until recently. Yet it has much to offer regarding our understanding of late medieval female spirituality. University of Exeter Press’s new edition (published June 2009) opens up the field by providing access to the text, and this companion further establishes scholarship on this text.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780859898218
SKU
V9780859898218
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About Denis Renevey (Ed.)
Denis Renevey is Professor of Old and Medieval English Literature and Language at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He has published widely in the field of vernacular theology and female religious writings. Christiania Whitehead is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at the University of Warwick. Her fields of interest lie in medieval allegory and female spirituality.
Reviews for Companion to The Doctrine of the Hert
These volumes ['The Doctrine of the Hert: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary' and 'A Companion to the Doctrine of the Hert'] represent a very significant and welcome contribution to medieval scholarship and will undoubtedly influence much future work on vernacular religious writings.
Medium Ævum, Vol. LXXIX
An unusually coherent collection of essays.
Journal of the Early Book Society
This is an outstanding collection.
Analecta Cartusiana, No 293
These insightful and rigorous essays, accompanying the new critical edition of 'The Doctrine of the Hert', will restore attention to an important family of devotional works. The Companion combines a valuable introduction to this largely neglected group of texts with a particular focus on the Middle English Doctrine. The authors are in productive conversation with each other, and the volume is clearly introduced and nicely cross-referenced.
Ecclesiastical History 63.2,
These two complementary volumes together fill a major gap in the ever-burgeoning fields of late medieval devotional literature and of medieval women’s spirituality. Students of medieval devotional literature and of medieval women’s spirituality will want to own the Companion as well as the edition of 'The Doctrine of the Hert.’
Medieval Feminist Forum, 48.1
This book is a careful and ambitious attempt to cover the whole gamut of Latin and vernacular traditions of the Doctrine of the Hert, and deserves considerable credit as a pioneering work in its field which also manages to be a compendium of everything one needs to know about this text.
Medium Ævum, Vol. LXXIX
An unusually coherent collection of essays.
Journal of the Early Book Society
This is an outstanding collection.
Analecta Cartusiana, No 293
These insightful and rigorous essays, accompanying the new critical edition of 'The Doctrine of the Hert', will restore attention to an important family of devotional works. The Companion combines a valuable introduction to this largely neglected group of texts with a particular focus on the Middle English Doctrine. The authors are in productive conversation with each other, and the volume is clearly introduced and nicely cross-referenced.
Ecclesiastical History 63.2,
These two complementary volumes together fill a major gap in the ever-burgeoning fields of late medieval devotional literature and of medieval women’s spirituality. Students of medieval devotional literature and of medieval women’s spirituality will want to own the Companion as well as the edition of 'The Doctrine of the Hert.’
Medieval Feminist Forum, 48.1
This book is a careful and ambitious attempt to cover the whole gamut of Latin and vernacular traditions of the Doctrine of the Hert, and deserves considerable credit as a pioneering work in its field which also manages to be a compendium of everything one needs to know about this text.