The Wooing of Our Lord and the Wooing Group Prayers
Broadview Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-55111-382-1 (ISBN)
The Wooing of Our Lord and the Wooing Group prayers occupy a key position in the history of English literature and the development of English religious devotion. Dating from the second quarter of the thirteenth century, they are among a group of texts written in English at a time when the language of literature and the court was Anglo-Norman French, and the language of church and state was Latin. The text for which this group is named, The Wooing of Our Lord is also a highly skilled composition, combining beautiful and poetic expression with a profound affective theology. Its first-person female narrator speaks directly to Christ, becoming the voice of the reader whom the text guides through a passionate meditation upon the magnitude of Christ’s love, his sufferings in his Passion, and the response of the individual soul.
Catherine Innes-Parker’s graceful new translation is paired with the original Middle English dialect in a facing-page format.
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish-born playwright and political activist. L.W. Conolly is Emeritus Professor of English at Trent University, Canada; an Honorary Fellow, Robinson College, Cambridge University; a Senior Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto, Canada; and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the editor of the Broadview Edition of Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession (2005) and the author of many other books on Shaw.
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
A Note on the Text: Editorial Practice
Þe wohunge of ure lauerd / The Wooing of Our Lord
On god ureisun of ure lefdi / A Good Prayer to Our Lady
On wel swuðe god ureisun of god almihti / A Most Excellent Prayer to God Almighty
Þe oreisun of seinte Marie / A Prayer to Saint Mary
On lofsong of ure louerde / A Hymn to Our Lord
Appendix A: Þe oreisun of seinte marie: The Prayer to Saint Mary
Appendix B: Bono Oratio: A Good Prayer
Appendix C: Bonum Lectum: A Good Reading
Appendix D: The Passion of our Lord, Jesus Christ: A Vision of the Passion
Appendix E: Hypothetical Stemma Codicae of the Wooing Group
Bibliography
| Verlagsort | Peterborough |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 320 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-55111-382-1 / 1551113821 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-55111-382-1 / 9781551113821 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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