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Fruit of the Orchard Reading Catherine of Siena in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

Brown Jennifer N.
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk

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9781487504076
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2019-01-11
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University of Toronto Press
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630 gr
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235 mm
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160 mm
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25 mm
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U, P, 05, 06
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Brown Jennifer N.

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Jennifer N. Brown is an associate professor and chair of English and World Literatures at Marymount Manhattan College.

Fruit of the Orchard Reading Catherine of Siena in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

Brown Jennifer N.
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<p>"Brown has written a very well researched work. On the basis of twenty-one manuscript and printed excepts or complete copies of works by and about Catherine, she has constructed a plausible picture of how Catherine became known in England between 1400 and 1700, who read her and why."</p>

- Hugh Feiss, <EM>Journal of British Studies</EM>

<p>"[<i>Fruit of the Orchard</i>] is a fascinating study of English piety that clearly will interest specialists in women’s visionary culture. [Brown’s] close readings of specific texts add to our understanding of their creation, transmission, and reception. Scholars investigating connections between gender and spiritual authority, as well as the discourse between Latin and vernacular texts in an era of increasing literacy and print culture, will come away with new questions to pursue."</p>

- Lezlie Knox, Marquette University, <em>Early Modern Women</em>

<p>"<i>Fruit of the Orchard</i> has been a decade in the writing: it was worth waiting for."</p>

- Luke Penkett, The Julian Centre, Norwich, <em>Spiritus</em>

Fruit of the Orchard sheds light on how Catherine of Siena served as a visible and widespread representative of English piety becoming a part of the devotional landscape of the period. By analyzing a variety of texts, including monastic and lay, complete and excerpted, shared and private, author Jennifer N. Brown considers how the visionary prophet and author was used to demonstrate orthodoxy, subversion, and heresy. Tracing the book tradition of Catherine of Siena, as well as investigating the circulation of manuscripts, Brown explores how the various perceptions of the Italian saint were reshaped and understood by an English readership. By examining the practice of devotional reading, she reveals how this sacred exercise changed through a period of increased literacy, the rise of the printing press, and religious turmoil.
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In Fruit of the Orchard, Jennifer N. Brown builds upon academic discourse about medieval readers, trans-Reformation studies, and Catherine of Siena to reveal insights into the changing devotional reading appetites and practices of the period.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Finding Catherine of Siena in Late Medieval and Early Modern England  1. Compiling Catherine: The Visionary Woman, Stephen Maconi, and the Carthusian Audience2. William Flete, English Spirituality, and Catherine of Siena 3. Catherine Excerpted: Reading the Miscellany  4. The Orcherd of Syon: How to Read in the Convent 5. Catherine in Print: Lay Audiences and Reading Hagiography  Conclusion - Reforming Reading: Catherine of Siena in an Age of Reform Appendix A: Literary Ancestry Chart Appendix B: Catherine Texts in England NotesBibliographyIndex  
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"One of the several impressive aspects of this book lies in the extremely careful attention given to detail in manuscripts and printed sources relevant to the transmission of Catherinian texts in England. Jennifer N. Brown has thoroughly teased out the finest textual details and placed them within a carefully considered framework of considerations relative to the nature and effects of gendered readership, female history, religious culture, and the roles of authority and reform in the late medieval and early modern periods."
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<p>"Brown has written a very well researched work. On the basis of twenty-one manuscript and printed excepts or complete copies of works by and about Catherine, she has constructed a plausible picture of how Catherine became known in England between 1400 and 1700, who read her and why."</p>

- Hugh Feiss, <EM>Journal of British Studies</EM>

<p>"[<i>Fruit of the Orchard</i>] is a fascinating study of English piety that clearly will interest specialists in women’s visionary culture. [Brown’s] close readings of specific texts add to our understanding of their creation, transmission, and reception. Scholars investigating connections between gender and spiritual authority, as well as the discourse between Latin and vernacular texts in an era of increasing literacy and print culture, will come away with new questions to pursue."</p>

- Lezlie Knox, Marquette University, <em>Early Modern Women</em>

<p>"<i>Fruit of the Orchard</i> has been a decade in the writing: it was worth waiting for."</p>

- Luke Penkett, The Julian Centre, Norwich, <em>Spiritus</em>

Fruit of the Orchard sheds light on how Catherine of Siena served as a visible and widespread representative of English piety becoming a part of the devotional landscape of the period. By analyzing a variety of texts, including monastic and lay, complete and excerpted, shared and private, author Jennifer N. Brown considers how the visionary prophet and author was used to demonstrate orthodoxy, subversion, and heresy. Tracing the book tradition of Catherine of Siena, as well as investigating the circulation of manuscripts, Brown explores how the various perceptions of the Italian saint were reshaped and understood by an English readership. By examining the practice of devotional reading, she reveals how this sacred exercise changed through a period of increased literacy, the rise of the printing press, and religious turmoil.
Les mer
In Fruit of the Orchard, Jennifer N. Brown builds upon academic discourse about medieval readers, trans-Reformation studies, and Catherine of Siena to reveal insights into the changing devotional reading appetites and practices of the period.
Les mer
Acknowledgments Introduction: Finding Catherine of Siena in Late Medieval and Early Modern England  1. Compiling Catherine: The Visionary Woman, Stephen Maconi, and the Carthusian Audience2. William Flete, English Spirituality, and Catherine of Siena 3. Catherine Excerpted: Reading the Miscellany  4. The Orcherd of Syon: How to Read in the Convent 5. Catherine in Print: Lay Audiences and Reading Hagiography  Conclusion - Reforming Reading: Catherine of Siena in an Age of Reform Appendix A: Literary Ancestry Chart Appendix B: Catherine Texts in England NotesBibliographyIndex  
Les mer
"One of the several impressive aspects of this book lies in the extremely careful attention given to detail in manuscripts and printed sources relevant to the transmission of Catherinian texts in England. Jennifer N. Brown has thoroughly teased out the finest textual details and placed them within a carefully considered framework of considerations relative to the nature and effects of gendered readership, female history, religious culture, and the roles of authority and reform in the late medieval and early modern periods."
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781487504076
Publisert
2019-01-11
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Toronto Press
Vekt
630 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Brown Jennifer N.

Biographical note

Jennifer N. Brown is an associate professor and chair of English and World Literatures at Marymount Manhattan College.

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