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"You must see yourself." The exhortation was increasingly familiar to English men and women in the two centuries before the Reformation. They encountered it repeatedly in their devotional books, the popular guides to spiritual self-improvement that were reaching an ever-growing readership at the end of the Middle Ages. But what did it mean to see oneself? What was the nature of the self to be envisioned, and what eyes and mirrors were needed to see and know it properly? Looking Inward traces a complex network of answers to such questions, exploring how English readers between 1350 and 1550 learned to envision, examine, and change themselves in the mirrors of devotional literature. By all accounts, it was the most popular literature of the period. With literacy on the rise, an outpouring of translations and adaptations flowed across traditional boundaries between religious and lay, and between female and male, audiences. As forms of piety changed, as social categories became increasingly porous, and as the heart became an increasingly privileged and contested location, the growth of devotional reading created a crucial arena for the making of literate subjectivities. The models of private reading and self-reflection constructed therein would have important implications, not only for English spirituality, but for social, political, and poetic identities, up to the Reformation and beyond. - Publisher.
Literature --- 18.05 English literature. --- Christliche Literatur --- Devotion. --- Devotional literature. --- Erbauungsliteratur. --- Identity (Philosophical concept). --- Identität. --- Leser. --- Literature. --- Mittelenglisch. --- Mittelenglische Literatur --- Selbst. --- Selbstbeobachtung --- Selbstbeobachtung. --- Selbstreflexion --- Self (Philosophy). --- Selbstreflexion. --- Mittelenglische Literatur. --- 1300-1500. --- Geschichte 1350-1400. --- Geschichte 1350-1550. --- Geschichte 1400-1500. --- Geschichte 1500-1550. --- Geschichte. --- Spätmittelalter (Epoche). --- England --- England. --- Great Britain --- Religious life and customs. --- Devotional literature --- Identity (Philosophical concept) --- Self (Philosophy) --- Littérature de dévotion --- Moi (Philosophie) --- Identité --- Angleterre --- Vie religieuse --- Philosophical anthropology --- Christian spirituality --- English literature --- anno 1200-1499
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“In the earliest versions [of the Loathly Lady tales], the Irish sovereignty hag tales, her excessive body allegorizes the nature of sovereignty; the Loathly Lady is the shape of success in power contestation. Because the vehicle of the allegory is gendered, however, and because the motif’s fictional flesh is sexually active, these ideas about control are entangled with personal power politics. These factors make the motif curiously promiscuous, an intersection of ideas that generates other ideas, sometimes unexpectedly, always provocatively. . . . “ This volume concentrates on the medieval English Loathly Lady tales, written a little later than the Irish tales, and developing the motif as a vehicle for social ideology. Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath’s Tale” and John Gower’s “Tale of Florent” are the better known of the English Loathly Lady tales, but “The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle,” the balladic versions—the “Marriage of Sir Gawain” and “King Henry” (and even “Thomas of Erceldoune”)—all use shape-shifting female flesh to convey ideas about the nature of women, about heretosexual relations, and about national identity.”—from the Introduction
820 "04/14" --- Engelse literatuur--Middeleeuwen --- 820 "04/14" Engelse literatuur--Middeleeuwen --- English poetry --- Women in literature. --- Metamorphosis in literature. --- Counseling in literature. --- Sovereignty in literature. --- Romances, English --- Ballads, English --- Ballads, English. --- Romances, English. --- Frau --- Mittelenglische Literatur --- Mittelenglisch. --- Motiv (Literatur). --- Frau. --- Metamorphose (Mythologie). --- Lyrik. --- Versdichtung. --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Middle English. --- Motiv --- Mittelenglische Literatur. --- Gower, John, --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Gawain, --- Gawain. --- Gower, John; Confessio amantis. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey; The Canterbury tales. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey --- Romances --- Studies. --- Confessio amantis (Gower, John). --- Wife of Bath's tale (Chaucer, Geoffrey). --- 1100 - 1500. --- England. --- Gauvain (personnage fictif) --- Gower, John (1325?-1408). Confessio amantis --- Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340?-1400). The wife of bath's tale --- Poésie anglaise --- Femmes --- Métamorphose (littérature) --- Souveraineté --- Roman courtois anglais --- Ballades anglaises --- Histoire et critique --- 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) --- Dans la littérature --- Angleterre (GB)
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"You must see yourself." The exhortation was increasingly familiar to English men and women in the two centuries before the Reformation. They encountered it repeatedly in their devotional books, the popular guides to spiritual self-improvement that were reaching an ever-growing readership at the end of the Middle Ages. But what did it mean to see oneself? What was the nature of the self to be envisioned, and what eyes and mirrors were needed to see and know it properly? Looking Inward traces a complex network of answers to such questions, exploring how English readers between 1350 and 1550 learned to envision, examine, and change themselves in the mirrors of devotional literature. By all accounts, it was the most popular literature of the period. With literacy on the rise, an outpouring of translations and adaptations flowed across traditional boundaries between religious and lay, and between female and male, audiences. As forms of piety changed, as social categories became increasingly porous, and as the heart became an increasingly privileged and contested location, the growth of devotional reading created a crucial arena for the making of literate subjectivities. The models of private reading and self-reflection constructed therein would have important implications, not only for English spirituality, but for social, political, and poetic identities, up to the Reformation and beyond. In Looking Inward, Bryan examines a wide range of devotional and secular texts, from works by Walter Hilton, Julian of Norwich, and Thomas Hoccleve to neglected translations like The Chastising of God's Children and The Pricking of Love. She explores the models of identification and imitation through which they sought to reach the inmost selves of their readers, and the scripts for spiritual desire that they offered for the cultivation of the heart. Illuminating the psychological paradigms at the heart of the genre, Bryan provides fresh insights into how late medieval men and women sought to know, labor in, and profit themselves by means of books.
Devotional literature. --- Littérature de dévotion --- Moi (Philosophie) --- Identité --- Religious life and customs. --- Vie religieuse --- 27 <420> "10/14" --- -Identity (Philosophical concept) --- Resemblance (Philosophy) --- Christian devotional literature --- Devotional theology --- Theology, Devotional --- Christian literature --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Engeland--?"10/14" --- Littérature de dévotion --- Identité --- Philosophical anthropology --- English literature --- Christian spirituality --- anno 1200-1499 --- Great Britain --- Self (Philosophy) --- Identity (Philosophical concept) --- England --- Angleterre --- Devotional literature --- Identity --- Philosophy --- Comparison (Philosophy) --- 18.05 English literature. --- Christliche Literatur --- Devotion. --- Erbauungsliteratur. --- Identity (Philosophical concept). --- Identität. --- Leser. --- Literature. --- Mittelenglisch. --- Mittelenglische Literatur --- Selbst. --- Selbstbeobachtung --- Selbstbeobachtung. --- Selbstreflexion --- Self (Philosophy). --- Selbstreflexion. --- Mittelenglische Literatur. --- 1300-1500. --- Geschichte 1350-1400. --- Geschichte 1350-1550. --- Geschichte 1400-1500. --- Geschichte 1500-1550. --- Geschichte. --- Spätmittelalter (Epoche). --- England. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
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English poetry --- Sex in literature. --- Gawain (Legendary character) --- Homosexuality and literature --- French poetry --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Rhetoric, Medieval. --- Poésie anglaise --- Sexualité dans la littérature --- Gauvain (Personnage légendaire) --- Homosexualité et littérature --- Poésie française --- Homosexualité dans la littérature --- Rhétorique médiévale --- History and criticism. --- Romances --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Romans, nouvelles, etc. --- Histoire --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. --- French poetry. --- Homosexuality and literature. --- Homosexualität --- Homosexualité dans la littérature. --- Literary form --- Literary form. --- Lyrik --- Lyrik. --- Mittelenglisch. --- Mittelenglische Literatur --- Orientation sexuelle dans la littérature. --- Poésie anglaise --- Poésie française --- Rhétorique médiévale. --- Romances. --- Sexual orientation in literature. --- Sexualité dans la littérature. --- History and criticism --- Middle English. --- Motiv (Literatur) --- Altfranzösisch --- Geschichte. --- Mittelenglisch --- Motiv --- Mittelenglische Literatur. --- Homosexualität. --- Gawain --- Chaucer --- Chaucer, Geoffrey --- Gawain and the Grene Knight. --- Sir Gawain and the green knight. --- To 1500. --- England. --- France.
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