Author

Publication

1996 - E.J. Brill, Leiden

Language

English

Word Count

47,250 words, Guess

Page Count

189 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL792177M
  • ISBN-109004104283
  • OCLC Control Number32921810
  • Library of Congress Control Number95024728
  • Goodreads1260083

Classifications

  • DDC274.2/05
  • LCCBR750 .H57 1996

Description

This volume deals with the ways in which religious Faith was communicated and adapted during the late medieval period and after, and with the ways in which spirituality, culture, written texts and gender interacted during the same period. Drawing on texts like the Book of Margery Kempe, popular prayers, romances and devotions, well-known devout practices, mystical and visionary writing, and devout representations like the Arma Christi, the book addresses the ways in which these both informed and were informed by attitudes towards Faith and Belief which continue today. Subjects include: the development of religious attitudes; devotion to Christ's blood; the influence of mysticism on literary texts; Chaucer's feminism; Eastern sources; and the transmission of medieval spirituality into the New World.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Studies in the history of Christian thought,

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