Adam's grace : fall and redemption in medieval literature /

"The theme of Adams Grace is the interplay of theology and literature and the use of medieval literary texts to explain the balance of the Fall and the Redemption, the universality of original sin, and the identity of mankind with its first parents, Adam and Eve. Brian Murdoch looks at this int...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murdoch, Brian, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [England] ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2000.
Colección:Hulsean lectures ; 1997-1998.
Temas:
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Fall of man in literature.
Redemption in literature.
Littérature médiévale > Histoire et critique.
Chute de l'homme dans la littérature.
Rédemption dans la littérature.
RELIGION > Christianity > Literature & the Arts.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Fall of man in literature
Literature, Medieval
Redemption in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: interpreting Adam
  • After Eden: the apocryphal Adam
  • Written in tablets of stone: Adam and Gregorius
  • Stultus et insipiens: Adam, Parzival and the knowledge of God
  • Innocent blood: redemption and the leper
  • Promises to Adam: the fall, the redemption and medieval drama
  • By the scriptures alone? playing Adam in the reformation and beyond.

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