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Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature
Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk
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About this book
In what varieties of ways is late medieval literature inflected by spiritual insight and desires? What weaves of literary cloth especially suit religious insight? In this collection dedicated to Elizabeth D. Kirk, Emeritus Professor of English at Brown University, several renowned scholars assess those related issues in a range of Medieval texts.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Mindful Spirit
- "Sweet Jesus"
- Amazons and Ursulines
- Misbehaving God: The Case of the Christ Child in MS Laud Misc. 108 "Infancy of Jesus Christ"
- "Als I Lay in a Winteris Nyt" and the Second Death
- Inscribing Mentalities: Alan ofLille, the De Lisle Psalter Cherub, and Franciscan Meditation
- The Middle English St. Francis: Text and Context
- "Wols-hede and outhorne": The Ban, Bare Life, and Power in the Passion Plays
- The Failure of Emotion and Reason in the York Cycle
- John Wyclif-All Women's Friend?
- St. Erkenwald: Narrative and Narrative Artistry
- "The Greatest Riddle of the B Text" of Piers Plowman: Why Langland Did Not Scrap the A Vita
- Souls that Matter: The Gendering of the Soul in Piers Plowman
- The Necessity of History: The Example of Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale"
- Host Desecration, Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale," and Prague 1389
- "Cast Thy Bread upon the Waters": A Paradigm from Ecclesiastes in Gower's "Apollonius of Tyre"
- Illiterate Memory and Spiritual Experience: Margery Kempe, the Liturgy, and the "Woman in the Crowd"
- The Family of Origin versus the Human Family: Universal Love in Literature
- About the Contributors