Prophetic Song

The Psalms As Moral Discourse in Late Medieval England

AvMichael P. Kuczynski

Inbunden, Engelska, 1995

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Beskrivning

A study of the Psalter's influence on the language of prescription and proscription, injunction, command, censure, reproof, and other ethical instruction in late medieval England, as well as exegesis and meditation that clearly had a homiletic or polemic bias. Among the themes is the distinction between the private and public use the Psalms were put to, and the deliberate blurring of that distinction to illustrate the unity between individual salvation and the reform of society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1995-04-29
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:645 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Anniversary Collection
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN:9780812232714

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Michael Kuczynski is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University.

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsPreface: "Beatus virres techyng"A Note on Psalm Texts and Middle English QuotationsAcknowledgmentsPT. I. INTERPRETING THE PSALMSCh. 1. David the "Maker"Ch. 2. Imitating DavidPT. II. PSALM DISCOURSECh. 3. David as a Model of CompunctionCh. 4. The Psalms as Models for Middle English PoetryPT. III. PSALM IDEOLOGYCh. 5. Two Versions of Captivity: Lydgate, the Lollards, and Psalm ComplaintCh. 6. William Langland, Radical PsalmistAfterwordAppendix A. "The Direccioun of a Mannys Lyfe"Appendix B. "The Remnant of My Thoughts"NotesBibliographyIndex