Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk

by Wheeler, Bonnie

• ISBN13: 9781403969705
• ISBN10: 1403969701
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-27
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In what varieties of ways is late medieval literature inflected by spiritual insight and desires? What weaves of literary cloth especially suit religious insight? In this collection, several renowned scholars assess those related issues in a range of Medieval texts.

Author Biography

Bonnie Wheeler teaches English and Medieval Studies at Southern Methodist University. She writes about medieval literature and culture, and she is the editor of the journal Arthuriana. Recent books include Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady (Palgrave, 2003); Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman (2000) ; On Arthurian Women: Essay in Memory of Maureen Fries; and The Malory Debate: The Texts of Le Morte Darthur.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Mindful Spirit	1	(8)
Bonnie Wheeler
"Sweet Jesus"	9	(12)
Mary Carruthers
Amazons and Ursulines	21	(10)
Elizabeth J. Bryan
Misbehaving God: The Case of the Christ Child in MS Laud Misc. 108 "Infancy of Jesus Christ"	31	(14)
Julie Nelson Couch
"Als I Lay in a Winteris Nyt" and the Second Death	45	(12)
Liam O. Purdon
Inscribing Mentalities: Alan of Lille, the De Lisle Psalter Cherub, and Franciscan Meditation	57	(24)
Lawrence M. Clopper
The Middle English St. Francis: Text and Context	81	(12)
Cynthia Ho
"Wols-hede and outhorne": The Ban, Bare Life, and Power in the Passion Plays	93	(16)
Robert S. Sturges
The Failure of Emotion and Reason in the York Cycle	109	(12)
Norma Kroll
John Wyclif—All Women's Friend?	121	(14)
Alastair Minnis
St. Erkenwald: Narrative and Narrative Artistry	135	(14)
Marie Borroff
"The Greatest Riddle of the B Text" of Piers Plowman: Why Langland Did Not Scrap the A Vita	149	(16)
Denise N. Baker
Souls that Matter: The Gendering of the Soul in Piers Plowman	165	(22)
Elizabeth Robertson
The Necessity of History: The Example of Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale"	187	(24)
Lee Patterson
Host Desecration, Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale," and Prague 1389	211	(14)
Sarah Stanbury
"Cast Thy Bread upon the Waters": A Paradigm from Ecclesiastes in Gower's "Apollonius of Tyre"	225	(12)
Monica E. McAlpine
Illiterate Memory and Spiritual Experience: Margery Kempe, the Liturgy, and the "Woman in the Crowd"	237	(12)
Arnold Sanders
The Family of Origin versus the Human Family: Universal Love in Literature	249	(14)
Judith Ferster
About the Contributors	263