The Doctrine of the Hert A Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary

by Whitehead, Christiania; Renevey, Denis; Mouron, Anne

• ISBN13: 9780859897785
• ISBN10: 0859897788
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-15
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

This volume makes available for the first time a critical edition ofThe Doctrine of the Hert, a fifteenth-century English-language translation ofDe doctrina cordis,which was a thirteenth-century Latin devotional treaty addressed to nuns. Offering a full textual commentary, this edition of theDoctrinaalso provides an introduction that not only examines current thinking on the treatise's authorship and envisioned primary audience, but also takes advantage of recent scholarly breakthroughs in our understanding of late medieval female spirituality.

Author Biography

Denis Renevey is professor of Old and Middle English at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Christiania Whitehead is senior lecturer in medieval English literature at the University of Warwick. Anne Mouron is a fellow in English at Greyfriars, University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
De doctrina cordis	p. xi
The structure and content of De doctrina cordis	p. xiii
Authorship	p. xv
Vernacular versions	p. xvii
The Doctrine of the Hert and fifteenth-century English religiosity	p. xx
Themes and images	p. xxiii
The Doctrine of the Hert as a translation	p. xxvi
Middle English manuscript descriptions	p. xlvii
Choice of base manuscript	p. lvi
Language and dialect	p. lx
Bibliography	p. lxiii
Editorial Procedures	p. lxxiv
The Doctrine of the Hert	p. 1
Prologue	p. 3
Capitulum primum	p. 5
Capitulum secundum	p. 47
Capitulum tercium	p. 59
Capitulum quartum	p. 68
Capitulum quintum	p. 77
Capitulum sextum	p. 80
Capitulum septimum	p. 85
Textual Commentary	p. 93
Abbreviated references	p. 93
Additional prefatory notes	p. 95
Prologue	p. 96
Capitulum primum	p. 98
Capitulum secundum	p. 138
Capitulum tercium	p. 151
Capitulum quartum	p. 160
Capitulum quintum	p. 166
Capitulum sextum	p. 168
Capitulum septimum	p. l74
Textual Variants	p. 182
Index to Latin and English Scriptural Quotations	p. 203
Appendices
Transcription of the 'HV' Prologue from De doctrina cordis	p. 207
Table of chapter contents from the 1607 edition of De doctrina cordis	p. 209
Glossary of Middle English Terms	p. 213
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