The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament The ca. 1518 Translation and the Middle Dutch Analogue, Mariken van Nieumeghen
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.09.2011
Herausgeber
Michael LivingstonVerlag
ISD International - IPSUKSeitenzahl
712
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.3/3.6 cm
Gewicht
1465 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-58044-150-6
Written, according to its anonymous poet, to motivate "sympyll men" toward a greater interest in Scripture, The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament presents a deft, animated late-fourteenth-century translation and expansion of Peter Comestor's twelfth-century Historia Scholastica, the single most authorized paraphrase of the Bible for much of the Middle Ages. However, to judge the Paraphrase a mere paraphrase is to undervalue its complexity and importance; it masterfully interweaves material from numerous sources, including an Old French metrical paraphrase, the Northumbrian Middle English poem Cursor Mundi, and several other Middle English texts. In a way few other texts can claim, the Paraphrase engages a breadth of core cultural issues definitive of late medieval England: vernacular translations of the Bible, the Bible's influence upon medieval romance and vice versa, a trend toward realism in conceptions of individual and social circumstances, cultural heterogeneity, and greater sympathy toward women and Jews.
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