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The contributions to Discovering the Riches of the Word. Religious Reading in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe offer an innovative approach to the study of religious reading from a long term and geographically broad perspective, covering the period from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century and with a specific focus on the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. Challenging traditional research paradigms, the contributions argue that religious reading in this “long fifteenth century” should be described in terms of continuity. They make clear that in spite of confessional divides, numerous reading practices continued to exist among medieval and early modern readers, as well as among Catholics and Protestants, and that the two groups in certain cases even shared the same religious texts. Contributors include: Elise Boillet, Sabrina Corbellini, Suzan Folkerts, Éléonore Fournié, Wim François, Margriet Hoogvliet, Ian Johnson, Hubert Meeus, Matti Peikola, Bart Ramakers, Elisabeth Salter, Lucy Wooding, and Federico Zuliani.

Christian literature --- Christians --- Christianity and literature. --- History and criticism. --- Books and reading. --- Literature and Christianity --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY --- Christian literature. --- Literary. --- Literature --- Comparative religion --- Comparative literature --- anno 1200-1799 --- Christian writings --- Christianity and literature --- Religious literature

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Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain and the Green Knightare accomplished examples of four different literary genres and represent some of the finest poetry in Middle English. They are, by turns, fast and funny, powerfully dramatic, gentle and ironic, telling of painful bereavement and the terror of victims of disaster and violence, as well as the comic bewilderment of people entangled in alarmingly mysterious situations. The anonymous poet's evident delight in the pleasures and artistry of courtly life has led some readers to suggest that he was a gifted but complacent frequenter of courts, his attention dedicated to the wealthy and his sympathies to the powerful, and moreover, that his poems pay the merest lipservice to religious observance. God and the Gawain-poet argues that, on the contrary, the poet's wide-ranging engagement with all human life explicitly acknowledges all material creation as God's gift, revelling in its physicality, in bodily senses and movement and the ways a community celebrates itself. Dr Hatt shows how, in exhorting readers to recognize and respond to the narrative of divine gift, he appears as an energetic Christian poet and a humane and compassionate observer. Cecilia Hatt gained her D.Phil from Oxford University.

Christian poetry, English (Middle) --- Arthurian romances --- Christianity and literature. --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Poésie chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais) --- Cycle d'Arthur --- Christianisme et littérature --- Manuscrits anglais (moyen anglais) --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Literature and Christianity --- Literature --- Christian literature --- English manuscripts (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Middle English --- Middle English manuscripts --- Arthurian Literature. --- Cleanness. --- Gawain-Poet. --- Genre. --- Literary Analysis. --- Literary Genres. --- Literary Scholarship. --- Medieval Literature. --- Middle English. --- Patience. --- Pearl. --- Sir Gawain. --- Theological Themes. --- Theology.