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UNINA9910479871003321 |
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Autore |
Raschko Mary |
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Titolo |
The politics of Middle English parables : Fiction, theology, and social practice / / Mary Raschko |
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Manchester, England : , : Manchester University Press, , [2019] |
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©2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (266 pages) |
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Collana |
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Manchester medieval literature and culture ; ; 23 |
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Soggetti |
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Parables |
English literature - Middle English |
Parables in literature |
Parables - History and criticism |
English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism |
Literary criticism |
Parables. |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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definitive sense but rather how Middle English parables inscribe the ideologies, power structures and cultural debates of late-medieval Christianity. |
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UNISA996388984203316 |
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Bourne William -1583 |
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A regiment for the sea [[electronic resource] ] : Contayning very necessarie matters for all sorts of men and trauailers: : whereunto is added an hydrographicall discourse touching the fiue seuerall passages into Cattay. / / Written by William Borne |
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At London, : Printed by T. Wight., 1601 |
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[Newly corrected and amended /] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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HoodThomas <active 1582-1598.> |
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Navigation |
Nautical astronomy |
Borders (Type evidence)17th century.England |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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In two parts. Second part, "The marriners guide," written by Thomas Hood, has special t.p., with continuous pagination and register. |
Title within ornamental border (McK. & Ferg. 265), tailpieces, initials, printed marginalia. |
Signatures: A2 [par]B-[par]C⁴ ²A-Z⁴ 2A⁴. |
[par]B1 mislabled [par]A1. |
Reproduction of original in: Yale University. Library. |
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