1st Edition

Nicholas Love's Mirror and Late Medieval Devotio-Literary Culture Theological politics and devotional practice in fifteenth-century England

By David J. Falls Copyright 2016
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

Surviving in 59 complete manuscript versions, few English texts of the late medieval period seem to have achieved the popularity of Nicholas Love's fifteenth-century translation and adaptation of the Latin Meditationes Vitae Christi - The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. The Mirror has received surprisingly little scholarly attention and is often contextualized in terms of its role in... Read more
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Biography

David J. Falls, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.