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A mirror to devout people (speculum devotorum)
- Title
- A mirror to devout people (speculum devotorum) / edited by Paul J. Patterson.
- Publication
- United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
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- Additional Authors
- Patterson, Paul J.
- Description
- liv, 252 pages : facsimiles; 22 cm
- Summary
- This volume 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 nun 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 severe restrictions on biblical translation into English, intended to limit the spread of heresy. The Mirror, written in the tradition of the highly successful translation by another Carthusian, Nicholas Love, of Pseudo-Bonaventure's life of Christ, testifies to the demand for such material in pious households.
- Series Statement
- Early English Text Society ; O.S. 346
- Uniform Title
- Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; 346, 2016 (for 2015)
- Alternative Title
- Speculum devotorum
- Subject
- Note
- Includes glossary (pages [219]-233).
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Language (note)
- Text in Middle English followed by the prayer 'O Intemerata' in Latin; introduction, notes and commentary in English.
- Contents
- Mirror to Devout People -- Manuscripts and early provenance -- The relationship of Gg and ND -- Language of the texts -- Sources [Meditaciones vitae Christi -- The Vulgate Bible and biblical commentaries -- Approved women -- Othyr doctorys] -- Editorial method.
- Call Number
- JFD 16-2435
- ISBN
- 0198744978
- 9780198744979
- OCLC
- 921184937
- Title
- A mirror to devout people (speculum devotorum) / edited by Paul J. Patterson.
- Publisher
- United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Early English Text Society ; O.S. 346Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; 346, 2016 (for 2015)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Language
- Text in Middle English followed by the prayer 'O Intemerata' in Latin; introduction, notes and commentary in English.
- Added Author
- Patterson, Paul J., editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-2435