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The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament af , 9781580441506
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
712
ISBN-13:
9781580441506
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1580441505
Udg. Dato:
1 sep 2011
Størrelse i cm:
25,4 x 17,8
Oplagsdato:
1 sep 2011

The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament

Engelsk
Paperback 2011
Format:

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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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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
712
ISBN-13:
9781580441506
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1580441505
Udg. Dato:
1 sep 2011
Størrelse i cm:
25,4 x 17,8
Oplagsdato:
1 sep 2011
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