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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... writers and underline the need to recognize that Julian and other devotional writers were also participants in the dialogues ... writing as somehow dis- 2. Colledge and Walsh ( 1978 ) , introduction , 47 . 3. For other views on Julian's ...
... writing , exploiting them in order to position herself squarely within the conversation about the nature of authority that preoc- cupied many of the key figures of the late fourteenth century . The very changes she made in the two ...
... writer , rather than as " pilgrim " or " teller . " 63 Some of the phrasing in the prologue suggests that he might have been working on it during the same period in which he was writing Troilus and Criseyde . For example , he describes ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Representations in Wycliffite Texts | 43 |
Reflections on Julian of Norwichs | 77 |
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