John Mirk's Festial

Volume 2
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-959037-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 335, 600 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 792 g

Reihe: Early English Text Society Original Series

New edition of enormously influential medieval English sermon collection
Volume 2 completes the edition and contains the remainder of the text, full explanatory notes, and glossary

The Festial, most probably composed in the late 1380s by the Augustinian canon, John Mirk, of Lilleshall Abbey, Shropshire, was the most popular and influential collection of sermons in English in the late medieval and early Tudor period, surviving in many copies, and printed by Caxton and his successors. The collection was designed to be accessible and entertaining, as well as orthodox, to counter the success of Lollard preaching, and taught both the priests who used the sermons, as well as their audiences, the fundamentals of the Christian faith and doctrine, illustrated by many stories. The Festial is the only English sermon collection to be printed in England before the Reformation and is probably the most frequently printed work of ist time before religious change made it unacceptable.

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars of medieval English literature and history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Powell, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Homiletik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Text
Explanatory Notes
Glossary
Appendices

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Susan Powell, University of Salford