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Author : Kate Heulwen Thomas
Release : 2011
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Book Synopsis The Meaning, Practice and Context of Private Prayer in Late Anglo-Saxon England by : Kate Heulwen Thomas
Download or read book The Meaning, Practice and Context of Private Prayer in Late Anglo-Saxon England written by Kate Heulwen Thomas. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kate H. Thomas
Release : 2020-01-20
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Late Anglo-Saxon Prayer in Practice by : Kate H. Thomas
Download or read book Late Anglo-Saxon Prayer in Practice written by Kate H. Thomas. This book was released on 2020-01-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph examines Anglo-Saxon prayer outside of the communal liturgy. With a particular emphasis on its practical aspects, it considers how small groups of prayers were elaborated into complex programs for personal devotion, resulting in the forerunners of the Special Offices. With examples being taken chiefly from major eleventh-century collections of prayers, liturgy and medical remedies, the methodologies of Anglo-Saxon compilers are examined, followed by five chapters on specialist kinds of prayer: to the Trinity and saints, for liturgical feasts and the canonical hours, to the Holy Cross, for protection and healing, and confessions. Analyzing prayer in a wide range of different situations, this book argues that Anglo-Saxon manuscripts may have included far more private offices than have so far been recognized, if we see them for what they were.
Author : Stephanie Clark
Release : 2018-01-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Compelling God by : Stephanie Clark
Download or read book Compelling God written by Stephanie Clark. This book was released on 2018-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Compelling God, Stephanie Clark examines the relationship between prayer, gift giving, the self, and community in Anglo-Saxon England.
Author : John Munns
Release : 2016
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Cross and Culture in Anglo-Norman England by : John Munns
Download or read book Cross and Culture in Anglo-Norman England written by John Munns. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the passion and crucifixion of Christ as depicted in the visual and religious culture of Anglo-Norman England. The twelfth century has long been recognised as a period of unusual vibrancy and importance, witnessing seminal changes in the inter-related spheres of theology, devotional practice, and iconography, especially with regard to thecross and the crucifixion of Christ. However, the visual arts of the period have been somewhat neglected, scholarly activity tending to concentrate on its textual and intellectual heritage. This book explores this extraordinarily rich and vibrant visual and religious culture, offering new and exciting insights into its significance, and studying the dynamic relationships between ideas and images in England between 1066 and the first decades of the thirteenth century. In addition to providing the first extensive survey of surviving Passion imagery from the period, it explores those images' contexts: intellectual, cultural, religious, and art-historical. It thus not only enhances our understanding of the place of the cross in Anglo-Norman culture; it also demonstrates how new image theories and patterns of agency shaped the life of the later medieval church. John Munns is a Fellow of MagdaleneCollege, Cambridge.
Author : Graham Williams
Release : 2018-05-17
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Sincerity in Medieval English Language and Literature by : Graham Williams
Download or read book Sincerity in Medieval English Language and Literature written by Graham Williams. This book was released on 2018-05-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of the ideal of sincerity from its origins in Anglo-Saxon monasteries to its eventual currency in fifteenth-century familiar letters. Beginning by positioning sincerity as an ideology at the intersection of historical pragmatics and the history of emotions, the author demonstrates how changes in the relationship between outward expression and inward emotions changed English language and literature. While the early chapters reveal that the notion of sincerity was a Christian intervention previously absent from Germanic culture, the latter part of the book provides more focused studies of contrition and love. In doing so, the author argues that under the rubric of courtesy these idealized emotions influenced English in terms of its everyday pragmatics and literary style. This fascinating volume will be of broad interest to scholars of medieval language, literature and culture.
