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Cushions, Kitchens and Christ

Mapping the Domestic in Late Medieval Religious Writing

Cushions, Kitchens and Christ

Mapping the Domestic in Late Medieval Religious Writing

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Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 9781786838308
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 15/01/2022
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
This book represents the first full-length study of the prevalence of domestic imagery in late medieval religious literature. It examines as yet understudied patterns of household imagery and allegory across four fifteenth-century spiritual texts, all of which are Middle English translations of earlier Latin works. These texts are drawn from a range of popular genres of medieval religious writing, including spiritual guidance texts, Lives of Christ and collections of revelations received by visionary women. All of the texts discussed in this book have identifiable late medieval readers, which further enables a discussion of the way in which these book users might have responded to the domestic images in each one. This is a hugely important area of enquiry, as the literal late medieval household was becoming increasingly culturally important during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and these texts’ frequent recourse to domestic imagery would have been especially pertinent.
Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations List of Manuscript Sigla Prefatory Notes Introduction Chapter One: The Kitchen of the Heart, Spiritual Furniture and Noble Visitors: Mapping the Domestic in The Doctrine of the Hert Chapter Two: The Domesticity of the Sacred Heart in Mechthild of Hackeborn’s Booke of Gostlye Grace Chapter Three: Marriage, Storehouses and Celestial Visitors: Domestic Frameworks in Bridget of Sweden’s Liber Celestis Chapter Four: From Wanderer to Householder: The Domestication of Jesus, the Disciples and the Holy Family in Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ Afterword Notes Bibliography

Louise Campion

Louise Campion is an independent scholar who recently completed an Early Career Research Fellowship in the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick.

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