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Miserere Mei

The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

by Clare Costley King'oo

  • Paperback
  • 312 pages
  • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
  • 18 x 22.4 x 1.7 cm

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In "Miserere Mei, "Clare Costley King'oo examines the critical importance of the Penitential Psalms in England between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. During this period, the Penitential Psalms inspired an enormous amount of creative and intellectual work: in addition to being copied and illustrated in Books of Hours and other prayer books, they were expounded in commentaries, imitated in vernacular translations and paraphrases, rendered into lyric poetry, and even modified for singing. "Miserere Mei "explores these numerous transformations in materiality and genre. Combining the resources of close literary analysis with those of the history of the book, it reveals not only that the Penitential Psalms lay at the heart of Reformation-age debates over the nature of repentance, but also, and more significantly, that they constituted a site of theological, political, artistic, and poetic engagementacross the many polarities that are often said to separate late medieval from early modern culture."Miserere Mei "features twenty-five illustrations and provides new analyses of works based on the Penitential Psalms by several key writers of the time, including Richard Maidstone, Thomas Brampton, John Fisher, Martin Luther, Sir Thomas Wyatt, George Gascoigne, Sir John Harington, and Richard Verstegan. It will be of value to anyone interested in the interpretation, adaptation, and appropriation of biblical literature; the development of religious plurality in the West; the emergence of modernity; and the periodization of Western culture. Students and scholars in the fields of literature, religion, history, art history, and the history of material texts will find "Miserere Mei" particularly instructive and compelling. "Seldom have I read a first book of such subtlety and sustained by such learning, particularly welcome for the way it so easily and gracefully crosses the artificial barriers we raise between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This is an original and often touching study of biblical materials that have seen a surge of interest. Those interested in the Psalms, in art history, in David, in translation, to say nothing of early modern sexuality, should rush to read it." --Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College and Columbia University
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Miserere Mei: The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern EnglandMiserere Mei

  • Title

    Miserere Mei

  • Author

    Clare Costley King'oo

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    University of Notre Dame Press

  • Published

    May 2012

  • Weight

    418g

  • Page Count

    312

  • Dimensions

    18 x 22.4 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780268033248

  • ISBN-10

    0268033242

  • Eden Code

    4024684

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