03038oam 22006134a 450 991047987100332120211004152548.01-5261-3118-8(CKB)4100000006995364(MiAaPQ)EBC5526189(OCoLC)1055160906(MdBmJHUP)musev2_78519(EXLCZ)99410000000699536420180315h20192019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe politics of Middle English parablesFiction, theology, and social practice /Mary RaschkoManchester, England :Manchester University Press,[2019]©20191 online resource (266 pages)Manchester medieval literature and culture ;231-5261-3119-6 1-5261-3117-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Manchester medieval literature and culture.Parablesfast(OCoLC)fst01052768English literatureMiddle Englishfast(OCoLC)fst01710961Parables in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst01904204Parables in literatureParablesHistory and criticismEnglish literatureMiddle English, 1100-1500History and criticismLiterary criticism.Parables.Criticism, interpretation, etc.Literary criticism.Electronic books. Parables.English literatureMiddle English.Parables in literature.Parables in literature.ParablesHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.261.7Raschko Mary894312MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910479871003321The politics of middle English parables1997799UNINA