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<i>Middle English Religious Writing in Practice: Texts, Readers, and Transformations</i> ed. by Nicole R. Rice (review)

Middle English Religious Writing in Practice: Texts, Readers, and Transformations ed. by... 274 Short Notices Hadley Williams’s detailed knowledge of the period makes the circumstances in which the texts were produced clear and in doing so she reveals aspects of politics that have been largely ignored. The utility of this work extends well beyond the purely literary. sybil m. JacK, The University of Sydney Rice, Nicole R., ed., Middle English Religious Writing in Practice: Texts, Readers, and Transformations (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 21), Turnhout, Brepols, 2013; hardback; pp. x, 278; 2 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. €75.00, ISBN 9782503541020. This collection of eight essays considers various later Middle English devotional texts (mainly prose) and their uses and adaptations during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Part I, ‘Continental Religious Women in English Practice’, opens with Jennifer N. Brown on the fates, in manuscript and print, of three English translations of texts associated with Catherine of Siena: a letter from the head of the Grande Chartreuse, supporting her canonization, Raymond of Capua’s life of the saint, and the Orchard of Syon. Michael G. Sargent unravels the complexities of the French and English textual traditions of Marguerite Porete’s Mirouer des simples âmes, and details the extraordinary story of the text’s treatment in the twentieth http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Parergon Australian & New Zealand Association of Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Inc. (ANAZAMEMS, Inc.)

<i>Middle English Religious Writing in Practice: Texts, Readers, and Transformations</i> ed. by Nicole R. Rice (review)

Barratt, Alexandra
Parergon , Volume 34 (2) – Feb 13, 2018
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274 Short Notices Hadley Williams’s detailed knowledge of the period makes the circumstances in which the texts were produced clear and in doing so she reveals aspects of politics that have been largely ignored. The utility of this work extends well beyond the purely literary. sybil m. JacK, The University of Sydney Rice, Nicole R., ed., Middle English Religious Writing in Practice: Texts, Readers, and Transformations (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 21), Turnhout, Brepols, 2013; hardback; pp. x, 278; 2 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. €75.00, ISBN 9782503541020. This collection of eight essays considers various later Middle English devotional texts (mainly prose) and their uses and adaptations during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Part I, ‘Continental Religious Women in English Practice’, opens with Jennifer N. Brown on the fates, in manuscript and print, of three English translations of texts associated with Catherine of Siena: a letter from the head of the Grande Chartreuse, supporting her canonization, Raymond of Capua’s life of the saint, and the Orchard of Syon. Michael G. Sargent unravels the complexities of the French and English textual traditions of Marguerite Porete’s Mirouer des simples âmes, and details the extraordinary story of the text’s treatment in the twentieth

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