Gebundenes Buch

Richard Rolle, Postille Super Novem Lectiones Mortuorum / Glosses on the Nine Lessons of the Dead

Beschreibung

This volume offers a critical edition and translation of one of Richard Rolle's final Latin writings, together with an extensive historical introduction, notes, and commentary. Rolle turns the nine passages from Job read in Matins in the Office of the Dead into a psycho-drama in which readers are faced with death, decay, and the fate of their soul, and are exhorted to take up the work of penance and contemplation. This work's influence on the educated English clergy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries made it a major contributor to Christian attitudes toward death and dying in the later medieval English Church.

Autor

Andrew Kraebel this year joins Rice University as Associate Professor of English, following a decade of teaching medieval English and Latin literature at Trinity University. His monograph Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England: Experiments in Interpretation (2020) received the Ecclesiastical History Society's book prize, as well as the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America. He is editor of The Sermons of William of Newburgh (2010) and, with Ardis Butterfield and Ian Johnson, of Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages: Interpretation, Invention, Imagination (2023). His essays have appeared in Speculum, Traditio, Mediaeval Studies, The Library, and other journals, as well as in various collections.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: PIMS
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 160mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 810g
• ISBN-13: 9780888442383
• ISBN-10: 0888442386
• Artikelnr.: 73776327