A mirror to devout people (speculum devotorum) /

A mirror to devout people (speculum devotorum) /

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Imprint:United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Description:liv, 252 pages : facsimiles ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Series:Early English Text Society ; O.S. 346
Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; 346, 2016 (for 2015)
Subject:
Jesus Christ -- Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
Jesus Christ.
Carthusians.
Carthusians -- Spiritual life.
Devotional literature, English (Middle)
Devotional literature, English (Middle)
Spiritual life.
Early works.
Meditations.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10771962
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Varying Form of Title:Speculum devotorum
Other authors / contributors:Patterson, Paul J., editor.
ISBN:0198744978
9780198744979
Notes:Includes glossary (pages [219]-233).
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Text in Middle English followed by the prayer 'O Intemerata' in Latin; introduction, notes and commentary in English.
Summary:This volume presents for the first time a Middle English Life of Christ, with additional religious advice, written in the early fifteenth century by a Carthusian monk at the Sheen Charterhouse for a nun at the nearby Bridgettine Syon Abbey. Both the Sheen Charterhouse and Syon were recent royal foundations, established by Henry V. The Mirror is an important example of the devotional works produced to satisfy demand among laity as well as professed religious, wanting to read lives of Christ in the years following the repressive legislation of Archbishop Arundel (1409), which placed severe restrictions on biblical translation into English, intended to limit the spread of heresy. The Mirror, written in the tradition of the highly successful translation by another Carthusian, Nicholas Love, of Pseudo-Bonaventure's life of Christ, testifies to the demand for such material in pious households.

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