The Powers of the Holy: Religion, Politics, and Gender in Late Medieval English CulturePennsylvania State University Press, 1996 - 310 من الصفحات The Powers of the Holy explores ways in which the language and images of Christian devotion in late fourteenth-century England were inextricably bound up with a variety of social and political relations. Addressing a wide range of texts, David Aers and Lynn Staley analyze the complex, shifting, and often extremely subtle forms in which writers responded to this situation. Aers concentrates on representations of the humanity of Christ. He unfolds the spiritual and political implications of different versions of the humanity of Christ composed in this period, addressing major issues of gender and power introduced into the field by Caroline Walker Bynum and others. He considers conventional devotional texts, Wycliffite writings, Langland's Piers Plowman, and Julian of Norwich's Revelation. Staley focuses on Julian of Norwich and Geoffrey Chaucer, two very different minds working both within and against dominant conventions of representations and power. Though not usually paired, both writers signal their knowing participation in the contemporary debate about power and authority, a debate that was conducted using the language of sanctity. The Powers of the Holy shows how and why medieval attempts to deal with an emerging crisis in the legitimization of authority (in most domains) interacted with conflicting versions of Christian sanctity. Simultaneously it shows just how, and why, matters that were distinctively spiritual could be politicized. Future readings of the period will undoubtedly follow this book's cultivation of methodologies that avoid any splitting apart of the study of devotion and devotional texts, the study of the politics of ecclesiastical and secular institutions, and the study of gender. |
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... relationship of human beings to God , with as its tangible and visible side a new type of liberating relationship between men and women , " a society " where master - servant relationships no longer pre- vail , quite different from life ...
... relationship between experience and authority might mean . In the ways in which the pilgrims exploit and pass on the tales of other au- thors , in their approaches to social and ecclesiastical institutions , in their efforts to ...
... relationship between power and authority that was frequently worked out through the language of images . Moreover , to say that the concept of the imitatio Christi functioned as an ideal for Christian medieval culture is not to endorse ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Representations in Wycliffite Texts | 43 |
Reflections on Julian of Norwichs | 77 |
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