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Title: |
The Wooing of Our Lord and The Wooing Group Prayers |
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| Edited by: |
Catherine Innes-Parker |
| ISBN10-13: |
1551113821 : 9781551113821 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Weight: |
.395 Kg. |
| Published: |
Broadview Press - July 2015 |
| List Price: |
30.75 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
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| The Wooing of Our Lord and the Wooing Group prayers occupy a key position in the history of English literature and the development of English religious devotion. Dating from the second quarter of the thirteenth century, they are among a group of texts written in English at a time when the language of literature and the court was Anglo-Norman French, and the language of church and state was Latin. The text for which this group is named, The Wooing of Our Lord is also a highly skilled composition, combining 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 Christâ s love, his sufferings in his Passion, and the response of the individual soul. Catherine Innes-Parkerâ s graceful new translation is paired with the original Middle English dialect in a facing-page format. |
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