The wooing of our Lord and The Wooing Group prayers /
The Wooing of Our Lord occupies a seminal position in the history of English literature and the development of English religious devotion. Dating from the second quarter of the thirteenth century, it is one of a group of texts written in English at a time when the language of literature and the cour...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English English, Middle (1100-1500) |
| Language Notes: | Text in English with Middle English translation on facing pages. |
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Peterborough, Ontario :
Broadview Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Broadview editions.
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| Summary: | The Wooing of Our Lord occupies a seminal position in the history of English literature and the development of English religious devotion. Dating from the second quarter of the thirteenth century, it is one of a group of texts written in English at a time when the language of literature and the court was Anglo-Norman French, and when the language of church and state was Latin. The Wooing of Our Lord is also a highly skilled composition, a work which combines beautiful and poetic expression with a profound affective theology. Its first-person female narrator speaks directly to Christ, becoming the voice of the reader whom the text guides through a passionate meditation upon the magnitude of Christ's love, his sufferings in his Passion, and the response of the individual soul. |
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| Physical Description: | 302 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-302). |
| ISBN: | 9781551113821 (paperback) 1551113821 (paperback) |