E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten
Raschko The politics of Middle English parables
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3119-5
Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Format: EPUB
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Fiction, theology, and social practice
E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten
Reihe: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3119-5
Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
The politics of Middle English parables examines the dynamic intersection of fiction, theology and social practice in late-medieval England. Parables occupy a prominent place in Middle English literature, appearing in dream visions and story collections as well as in lives of Christ and devotional treatises. While most scholarship approaches the translated stories as stable vehicles of Christian teaching, this book highlights the many variations and points of conflict across Middle English renditions of the same story. In parables related to labour, social inequality, charity and penance, the book locates a creative theological discourse through which writers attempted to re-construct Christian belief and practice. Analysis of these diverse retellings reveals not what a given parable meant in a definitive sense but rather how Middle English parables inscribe the ideologies, power structures and cultural debates of late-medieval Christianity.
