| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
The Middle Ages series |
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Middle Ages series.
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| Contents |
General Preface -- Conventions -- General introduction : The prophesying ass : Patterns and premises -- PART I. BEFORE AND AFTER THE ENGLISH REFORMATION : CHURCH HISTORY, NATIONAL HISTORY, SCHOLARLY HISTORY -- Diglossic contract -- Anglican historiography -- Romantic philology -- Catholic apologetics -- Medieval studies and modernism -- PART II. THE MEDIEVAL IDEA OF THE VERNACULAR : MODELS, TERMS, CONCEPTS -- Christian teaching across the longue durée -- Theology and the Christian community -- Vernacular as a clerical construct -- Institutional stance and social address -- Vernacular archive -- PART III. ENGLISH IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES : LANGUAGE POLITICS AND MONASTIC REFORM -- Old English in the long twelfth century -- Benedictine vernacular canon I: Tenth century -- Benedictine vernacular canon II: Eleventh century -- English in monastery, minster, and court -- Contradictions of Benedictine English -- PART IV. FROM OLD ENGLISH TO EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH : CONTINUITY, ADAPTATION, SECULARIZATION -- Narrowing of written English -- Transformation of insular history -- New Pastoralia I: Secular priests and regular canons -- New Pastoralia II: Diocesan preaching books -- New Pastoralia III: Anchoresses and the city -- Coda to Volume 1 -- Appendix: Tables of dates, texts, and persons -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of manuscripts -- General index -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
Balaam's Ass attempts the first comprehensive overview of religious writing in early England's vernacular languages--Old English, Insular French, and Middle English--between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. In this first of three volumes, Watson focuses on the first generation of these writings, in Old English and early Middle English |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Nicholas Watson is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature at Harvard University |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500
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Christian literature, English (Old) -- History and criticism
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Christian literature, English (Middle) -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
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Christian literature, English (Middle)
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Christian literature, English (Old)
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Christianity and literature
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Karras, Ruth Mazo, 1957- series editor.
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| ISBN |
0812298349 |
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9780812298345 |
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