Imagining Jesus Christ in Middle English Literature, 1275-1475

Royal Traitor, Heroic Lamb
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-65075-8
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 251 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

Reihe: The New Middle Ages

This book interprets Jesus Christ as a complicated, disunified literary character in Middle English literature, where he appears variously as king, traitor, victorious conqueror, sacrificial lamb, heroic knight, lover, and spouse--often as several contradictory figures in a single work. These tropes derive from Scripture, doctrines about Christ's two natures, and theories of redemption. This book examines the full range of representations in , Nicholas Love’s  Sir John Mandeville’s the York Play, and Julian of Norwich's . Although Christ's two natures are well represented in existing scholarship, many traditions have been overlooked, including commonplace treatments of Christ as both a traitor and king, conqueror and sacrificial lamb, hero and lover. As writers call upon audiences to feel compassion for Jesus's suffering, they almost universally express antipathy toward his Jewish torturers, complicating our ideas about affective piety. In these works, the Virgin Mary is less exemplary for her compassion than for her understanding of doctrine. In short, this book offers new perspectives on vernacular Christology between about 1275 and 1475.

Theresa Tinkle is a Professor within the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, USA, as well as Director of the Gayle Morris Sweetland Center for Writing. Previous publications include  (1996) and  (Palgrave, 2010). Theresa’s academic training and publications include the study of medieval English and Latin literature, the medieval reception of the Bible, gender and sexuality studies, paleography and manuscript studies, composition and pedagogy, and disability studies. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tinkle, Theresa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. -Reading Medieval God-Texts. -Chapter 2.- King at the Nativity. -Chapter 3. -King, Traitor, and Thief at the Passion. -Chapter 4. -Sir John Mandeville’s God(s). -Chapter 5. -“Verray God & Verray Man”: Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. -Chapter 6.- York’s Jesus: Crowned King and Traitor Attainted Afterword.

Über Autor(innen)

Theresa Tinkle is a Professor within the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, USA. Previous publications include  (1996) and  (Palgrave, 2010). Theresa’s academic training and publications include the study of medieval English and Latin literature, the medieval reception of the Bible, gender and sexuality studies, paleography and manuscript studies, composition and pedagogy, and disability studies.