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A Mirror to Devout People: Speculum devotorum (Early English Text Society Original Series)
Paul J. Patterson
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Description for A Mirror to Devout People: Speculum devotorum (Early English Text Society Original Series)
Hardcover. This is the first full critical edition of a fifteenth-century devotional work written for a Bridgettine nun at Syon Abbey by a Carthusian monk at the Sheen Charterhouse. This version of the life of Christ was owned by both monastic and lay readers and testifies to the popularity of devotional reading among a mixed audience. Editor(s): Patterson, Paul J. Series: Early English Text Society Original Series. Num Pages: 375 pages, 2 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3H; DSBB; HBLC1; HRCV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
This edition of A Mirror to Devout People 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 sister 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 ... Read more
This edition of A Mirror to Devout People 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 sister 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Series
Early English Text Society Original Series
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198744979
SKU
V9780198744979
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About Paul J. Patterson
Prof. Paul J. Patterson is an Associate Professor of English at Saint Joseph's University. His research interests include devotional writing in late medieval England and the transmission of mystical writings from the Continent to England.
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