The Wooing of Our Lord and the Wooing Group Prayers - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1551113821 ISBN 13: 9781551113821

Casa editrice: Broadview Pr, 2015

Riassunto

The Wooing of Our Lord and the Wooing Group prayers occupy a key position in the history of English literature and the development of English religious devotion. Dating from the second quarter of the thirteenth century, they are among a group of texts written in English at a time when the language of literature and the court was Anglo-Norman French, and the language of church and state was Latin. The text for which this group is named, The Wooing of Our Lord is also a highly skilled composition, combining beautiful and poetic expression with a profound affective theology. Its first-person female narrator speaks directly to Christ, becoming the voice of the reader whom the text guides through a passionate meditation upon the magnitude of Christ’s love, his sufferings in his Passion, and the response of the individual soul.

Catherine Innes-Parker’s graceful new translation is paired with the original Middle English dialect in a facing-page format.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Catherine Innes-Parker is Professor of English at the University of Prince Edward Island.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Broadview Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1551113821
• ISBN 13: 9781551113821
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 302
• Redattore: Innes-parker Catherine