| Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God Contributor(s): Connolly, Margaret (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0197223052 ISBN-13: 9780197223055 Publisher: Early English Text Society OUR PRICE: $54.45 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Living - General - Literary Criticism | Medieval |
| Dewey: 248.2 |
| LCCN: 94231282 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.5" (0.80 lbs) 182 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God (also known as Fervor Amoris) is a late Middle English devotional prose text--a manual of guidance for the spiritual and ethical life directed at the lay population of both sexes, rather than at a monastic audience. It is a useful index of English popular spirituality since its circulation seems to have been extensive: it survives in sixteen manuscripts dating from the first half of the fifteenth century, and two early sixteenth-century printed editions. This first critical edition of the text is based on one manuscript, with variant readings cited from the other witnesses where necessary. The volume has a full critical apparatus and an introduction which discusses manuscript relations, matters of textual criticism, editorial technique, language, and dating. |