Synopsis
Nicholas Love's "Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ" is an important work of late medieval English vernacular theology, and is made available here in a fully critical modern edition, including notes and glossary. The volume is a thoroughly revised version of the 1992 Garland edition, now out of print, and includes the results of a complete collation of the 71 known surviving manuscripts and early prints. This collation has enabled not merely a discussion of the transmission of the text, but further insight into the circumstances of its original production, which is set out in an expansion of the 1992 introduction. Nicholas Love's "Mirror" was a Middle English translation of the pseudo-Bonaventuran "Meditationes Vitae Christi". The Latin text, probably written at the end of the 13th century or the beginning of the 14th, was a highly popular book of devotions on the events of the life and passion of Christ that is particularly characteristic of late-medieval Franciscan spirituality. The passion meditations were separately translated into English no fewer than six times in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries but only one translation was made of the entire text: Nicholas Love's "Mirror".
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ is an important work of late medieval English vernacular theology, and is made available here in a modern paperback ""Reading Text"" edition, complete with a short Introduction, explanatory notes and glossary, followed by a longer Hardcover: the ""Full Critical Edition"". The critical edition is not merely a revision of Michael Sargent's 1992 Garland best-text edition, now out of print, but a new and completely critical edition that uses the Garland volume only as its starting-point. Although based on the same manuscript, and containing much of the same introductory material, this edition includes the results of a complete collation of the 71 known surviving manuscripts and early prints. This collation demonstrates that the text exists in two separate authorial versions, of which the first, which incorporated a separate, independent translation of the Passion section, may not in the first instance have included the ""Treatise on the Sacrament"". The second version, on which the edition is based, is an authorial revision, undertaken, perhaps, after Love had met with Archbishop Arundel for approval of his text. The Introduction discusses the evidence for the process of composition of the text, and places Love's Mirror, properly, at the centre of current scholarly discussion of the development of vernacular theology in late medieval England and the consequences of Arundel's anti-Lollard Lambeth Constitutions.
Présentation de l'éditeur
Nicholas Loves Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ is a particularly important work of late medieval English vernacular theology: it is seen as a landmark in the history of the official campaign to control lay access to vernacular paramystical texts. It is made available here for the first time in a critical modern paperback edition, complete with a short introduction, explanatory notes and a glossary. The volume is not merely a revision of Michael Sargents 1992 Garland best-text edition, now out of print, but a new full critical edition that uses the Garland volume only as its starting-point. Although based on the same manuscript, this new edition includes the results of a complete collation of the 71 known surviving manuscripts and early prints.Nicholas Loves Mirror was a Middle English translation of the pseudo-Bonaventuran Meditationes Vitae Christi. The Latin text, probably written at the end of the thirteenth century or the beginning of the fourteenth, was a popular book of devotions on the events of the life and passion of Christ characteristic of late-medieval Franciscan spirituality. The Introduction places Love's Mirror, properly, at the centre of current scholarly discussion of the development of vernacular theology in late medieval England.
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