Overview
Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ was an extremely influential work in its own time, but has seldom received the modern critical study it merits. To celebrate the acquisition of a fifteenth-century manuscript of the Mirror, Waseda University held a conference of specialists in various aspects of late-medieval English literary culture to study aspects of the text and its ramifications. Topics include studies of the hand and decoration of the Waseda manuscript; the connection between the Mirror and late-medieval English drama; the audience of devout women and others who owned and read manuscripts of the Mirror; the rhetoric of the punctuation of the text; its prose style, its early printing, and the production, scribal dialect, and textual affiliations of the Waseda manuscript.Professor SHOICHI OGURO teaches at Waseda University; Dr RICHARD BEADLE teaches in the Department of English, University of Cambridge; ProfessorMICHAEL SARGENT teaches in the Department of English, Queen's College, City University of New York. Contents and Contributors: RICHARD BEADLE, CAROL M. MEALE, M.B. PARKES, KATHLEEN SCOTT, CHRISTOPHER de HAMEL, N.F. BLAKE, KOICHI YUKUSHIMA, AKIHIKO NAKAHARA, JEREMY J. SMITH, LOTTE HELLINGA, A.I. DOYLE, MICHAEL G. SARGENT
Full Product Details
Author: Shoichi Oguro ,
Richard Beadle ,
Professor Michael G Sargent (Contributor) ,
A.I. Doyle
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint: D.S. Brewer
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.001kg
ISBN: 9780859915007
ISBN 10: 085991500
Pages: 305
Publication Date: 17 July 1997
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Long-overdue recognition of the importance of Love's Mirror, and a suibstantial contribution to the medieval history of the book. MEDIUM AEVUM An essential starting point for any future student of Love's Mirror JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY Splendid collection ofnt of Love's Mirror JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY Splendid collection of essays arising from the
Long-overdue recognition of the importance of Love's Mirror, and a suibstantial contribution to the medieval history of the book. MEDIUM AEVUM An essential starting point for any future student of Love's Mirror JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY Splendid collection of essays arising from the landmark conference...will be of great value to scholars for years to come. MLR 96,2; 2001
Author Information
Jeremy Smith was professor of English philology at Glasgow, where he remains a senior research fellow and emeritus professor, and an honorary professor at St Andrews. His specialisms include English historical linguistics, medieval studies, and book history, combined recently in Transforming Early English (2020).
