Balaam's ass : vernacular theology before the English Reformation. Volume 1, Frameworks, arguments, English to 1250 /

Balaam's Ass attempts the first comprehensive overview of religious writing in early England's vernacular languages--Old English, Insular French, and Middle English--between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. In this first of three volumes, Watson focuses on the first generation of these w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Watson, Nicholas (Autor)
Otros Autores: Karras, Ruth Mazo, 1957- (series editor.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]
Colección:Middle Ages series.
Temas:
To 1500
Christianity and literature > England > History > To 1500.
Christian literature, English (Old) > History and criticism.
Christian literature, English (Middle) > History and criticism.
Littérature chrétienne anglaise (vieil anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Littérature chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
Christian literature, English (Middle)
Christian literature, English (Old)
Christianity and literature
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • General Preface
  • Conventions
  • General introduction : The prophesying ass : Patterns and premises
  • PART I. BEFORE AND AFTER THE ENGLISH REFORMATION : CHURCH HISTORY, NATIONAL HISTORY, SCHOLARLY HISTORY
  • Diglossic contract
  • Anglican historiography
  • Romantic philology
  • Catholic apologetics
  • Medieval studies and modernism
  • PART II. THE MEDIEVAL IDEA OF THE VERNACULAR : MODELS, TERMS, CONCEPTS
  • Christian teaching across the longue durée
  • Theology and the Christian community
  • Vernacular as a clerical construct
  • Institutional stance and social address
  • Vernacular archive
  • PART III. ENGLISH IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES : LANGUAGE POLITICS AND MONASTIC REFORM
  • Old English in the long twelfth century
  • Benedictine vernacular canon I: Tenth century
  • Benedictine vernacular canon II: Eleventh century
  • English in monastery, minster, and court
  • Contradictions of Benedictine English
  • PART IV. FROM OLD ENGLISH TO EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH : CONTINUITY, ADAPTATION, SECULARIZATION
  • Narrowing of written English
  • Transformation of insular history
  • New Pastoralia I: Secular priests and regular canons
  • New Pastoralia II: Diocesan preaching books
  • New Pastoralia III: Anchoresses and the city
  • Coda to Volume 1
  • Appendix: Tables of dates, texts, and persons
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index of manuscripts
  • General index
  • Acknowledgments.

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