Miserere Mei: The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England b

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Miserere Mei by Clare Costley King'oo Kingoo examines the critical importance of the Penitential Psalms in England between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In Miserere Mei, Clare Costley Kingoo examines the critical importance of the Penitential Psalms in England between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. During this period, the Penitential Psalms inspired an enormous amount of creative and intellectual work: in addition to being copied and illustrated in Books of Hours and other prayer books, they were expounded in commentaries, imitated in vernacular translations and paraphrases, rendered into lyric poetry, and even modified for singing. Miserere Mei explores these numerous transformations in materiality and genre. Combining the resources of close literary analysis with those of the history of the book, it reveals not only that the Penitential Psalms lay at the heart of Reformation-age debates over the nature of repentance, but also, and more significantly, that they constituted a site of theological, political, artistic, and poetic engagement across the many polarities that are often said to separate late medieval from early modern culture.Miserere Mei features twenty-five illustrations and provides new analyses of works based on the Penitential Psalms by several key writers of the time, including Richard Maidstone, Thomas Brampton, John Fisher, Martin Luther, Sir Thomas Wyatt, George Gascoigne, Sir John Harington, and Richard Verstegan. It will be of value to anyone interested in the interpretation, adaptation, and appropriation of biblical literature; the development of religious plurality in the West; the emergence of modernity; and the periodization of Western culture. Students and scholars in the fields of literature, religion, history, art history, and the history of material texts will find Miserere Mei particularly instructive and compelling. Author Biography Clare Costley Kingoo is assistant professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Review "Kingoo provides a careful and multi-disciplinary history of this group of psalms during the years before and following the English Reformation. . . . Using tools from the scholarship of history, art, literature, and theology, Kingoo has written a fascinating study. With its superb scholarship and carefully reasoned arguments, this book is recommended for academic libraries supporting graduate programs." —Catholic Library World"The discovery of continuities amidst the upheaval of the Reformation has been a major area of scholarship in recent years and Kingoo ably demonstrates that the Penitential psalms form yet another example of the way in which the religious literature of the pre-Reformed past was not cast aside but rather gradually and complexly reshaped in Reformation England." —Journal of Ecclesiastical History"The interdisciplinary approach used by Costley Kingoo is one of the books great strengths: we study manuscripts, early printed works and illustrations; Bible commentary, paraphrase and translation; lyric poetry, political parody and devotional song. . . . [This book] will have a broad appeal to scholars of the Bible (and the psalms in particular), scholars of art history and religious history, literary scholars and those interested in early modern sexuality." —The History of Women Religious"Kingoo lays out a concentrated argument for the centrality of the Penitential Psalms and what she calls a penitential hermeneutic in both late medieval and early modern culture. . . . The monograph makes a solid case for the need for further study in this area." —The Medieval Review"A fascinating and impressively composed monograph. . . . Kingoos study is at its finest and most compelling in her analysis of individual adaptations of the Penitential Psalms, where close reading merges richly with attention to historical context and textual details." —Comitatus"Kingoo is especially perceptive in her attention to textual and literary detail, and she offers many valuable insights into the dynamic life of old traditions carried through time. Read as a whole or as selected essays, this book gives helpful case studies for those looking for a highly nuanced understanding of the continuities and discontinuities between the late medieval and early modern uses of biblical texts." —Religious Studies Review"Kingoos study distinguishes itself among other excellent scholarly works on the Psalter for its carefully considered focus on the unique textual tradition of the Seven Penitential Psalms. . . . Given Kingoos training as a literary scholar, her attention to the Penitential Psalms form, genre, language, and even the material texts in which they were available yields exciting interpretations of their nuanced revisions and their implied audiences." —Church History"Her writing is clear and engaging and stylistically sophisticated. This is a thoroughly enjoyable and well-researched book whose focus, although seemingly narrow, sheds much light on the some of the central controversies of the early modern period." —Speculum"Miserere Mei convincingly and originally answers a number of the questions raised by the use and persistence of these Psalms, and offers new ones that we didnt know enough to ask previously. . . . The greatest strengths of the book may be the ostensible narrowness and concreteness of its focus. By limiting her attention to the penitential Psalms, Kingoo has written a monograph that is unusually coherent and organic, given the span of time and range of genres covered." —Renaissance Quarterly"The book offers itself both as a valuable cultural history of the penitential psalms and as a model for rethinking outdated yet still dominant modes of historical periodization." —Modern Language Review Review Quote "The interdisciplinary approach used by Costley Kingoo is one of the books great strengths: we study manuscripts, early printed works and illustrations; Bible commentary, paraphrase and translation; lyric poetry, political parody and devotional song. . . . [This book] will have a broad appeal to scholars of the Bible (and the psalms in particular), scholars of art history and religious history, literary scholars and those interested in early modern sexuality." -- The History of Women Religious Details ISBN0268206597 Author Clare Costley Kingoo Short Title Miserere Mei Pages 306 Publisher University of Notre Dame Press Series ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 0268206597 ISBN-13 9780268206598 Format Hardcover Subtitle The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England Imprint University of Notre Dame Press Place of Publication Notre Dame IN Country of Publication United States Illustrations 25 Halftones, black and white Publication Date 2022-09-30 AU Release Date 2022-09-30 NZ Release Date 2022-09-30 US Release Date 2022-09-30 UK Release Date 2022-09-30 Alternative 9780268033248 DEWEY 223.200942 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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