Cushions, Kitchens and Christ: Mapping the Domestic in Late Medieval Religious Writing

Author:   Louise Campion
Publisher:   University of Wales Press
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Pages:   240
Publication Date:   15 January 2022
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Cushions, Kitchens and Christ: Mapping the Domestic in Late Medieval Religious Writing


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This book represents the first full-length study of the prevalence of domestic imagery in late medieval religious literature. It examines as yet understudied patterns of household imagery and allegory across four fifteenth-century spiritual texts, all of which are Middle English translations of earlier Latin works. These texts are drawn from a range of popular genres of medieval religious writing, including spiritual guidance texts, Lives of Christ and collections of revelations received by visionary women. All of the texts discussed in this book have identifiable late medieval readers, which further enables a discussion of the way in which these book users might have responded to the domestic images in each one. This is a hugely important area of enquiry, as the literal late medieval household was becoming increasingly culturally important during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and these texts' frequent recourse to domestic imagery would have been especially pertinent.

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Author:   Louise Campion
Publisher:   University of Wales Press
Imprint:   University of Wales Press
ISBN:  

9781786838308


ISBN 10:   1786838303
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   15 January 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations List of Manuscript Sigla Prefatory Notes Introduction Chapter One: The Kitchen of the Heart, Spiritual Furniture and Noble Visitors: Mapping the Domestic in The Doctrine of the Hert Chapter Two: The Domesticity of the Sacred Heart in Mechthild of Hackeborn’s Booke of Gostlye Grace Chapter Three: Marriage, Storehouses and Celestial Visitors: Domestic Frameworks in Bridget of Sweden’s Liber Celestis Chapter Four: From Wanderer to Householder: The Domestication of Jesus, the Disciples and the Holy Family in Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ Afterword Notes Bibliography

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This book will be useful to international academics (including graduate researchers and postdoctoral scholars) who are engaged in research relating to late medieval religious literature and culture. It would also be suitable for undergraduates who are studying relevant courses.

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