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The politics of Middle English parables : fiction, theology, and social practice
- Title
- The politics of Middle English parables : fiction, theology, and social practice / Mary Raschko.
- Author
- Raschko, Mary
- Publication
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- ix, 255 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- The politics of Middle English parables examines the dynamic intersection of fiction, theology and social practice in late-medieval England. Parables occupy a prominent place in Middle English literature, appearing in dream visions and story collections as well as in lives of Christ and devotional treatises. While most scholarship approaches the translated stories as stable vehicles of Christian teaching, this book highlights the many variations and points of conflict across Middle English renditions of the same story. In parables related to labour, social inequality, charity and penance, the book locates a creative theological discourse through which writers attempted to re-construct Christian belief and practice. Analysis of these diverse retellings reveals not what a given parable meant in a definitive sense but rather how Middle English parables inscribe the ideologies, power structures and cultural debates of late-medieval Christianity.
- Series Statement
- Manchester medieval literature and culture ; 23
- Uniform Title
- Manchester medieval literature and culture ; 23.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Parables.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-244) and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-1035
- ISBN
- 152613117X
- 9781526131171
- 9781526131195 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- 9781526131188 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 1028586697
- Author
- Raschko, Mary, author.
- Title
- The politics of Middle English parables : fiction, theology, and social practice / Mary Raschko.
- Publisher
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Manchester medieval literature and culture ; 23Manchester medieval literature and culture ; 23.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-244) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1100-1500
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781526131195
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-1035