The politics of Middle English parables: Fiction, theology, and social practice (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture) - Softcover

Buch 16 von 35: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

Raschko, Mary

 
9781526199805: The politics of Middle English parables: Fiction, theology, and social practice (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1526199807 ISBN 13: 9781526199805
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

The politics of Middle English parables examines the dynamic intersection of fiction, theology and social practice in late-medieval England. Parables occupy a prominent place in Middle English literature, appearing in dream visions and story collections as well as in lives of Christ and devotional treatises. While most scholarship approaches the translated stories as stable vehicles of Christian teaching, this book highlights the many variations and points of conflict across Middle English renditions of the same story. In parables related to labour, social inequality, charity and penance, the book locates a creative theological discourse through which writers attempted to re-construct Christian belief and practice. Analysis of these diverse retellings reveals not what a given parable meant in a definitive sense but rather how Middle English parables inscribe the ideologies, power structures and cultural debates of late-medieval Christianity. -- .

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Mary Raschko is Associate Professor of English at Whitman College -- .

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1526199807
ISBN 13 
9781526199805
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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