The Wooing of Our Lord and the Wooing Group Prayers (Broadview Editions) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551113821 ISBN 13: 9781551113821

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2015

Synopsis

The Wooing of Our Lord and the Wooing Group prayers occupy a key position in the history of English literature and the development of English religious devotion. Dating from the second quarter of the thirteenth century, they are among a group of texts written in English at a time when the language of literature and the court was Anglo-Norman French, and the language of church and state was Latin. The text for which this group is named, The Wooing of Our Lord is also a highly skilled composition, combining beautiful and poetic expression with a profound affective theology. Its first-person female narrator speaks directly to Christ, becoming the voice of the reader whom the text guides through a passionate meditation upon the magnitude of Christ’s love, his sufferings in his Passion, and the response of the individual soul.

Catherine Innes-Parker’s graceful new translation is paired with the original Middle English dialect in a facing-page format.

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About the Author

Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish-born playwright and political activist.

L.W. Conolly is Emeritus Professor of English at Trent University, Canada; an Honorary Fellow, Robinson College, Cambridge University; a Senior Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto, Canada; and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the editor of the Broadview Edition of Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession (2005) and the author of many other books on Shaw.

From the Back Cover

The Wooing of Our Lord and the Wooing Group prayers occupy a key position in the history of English literature and the development of English religious devotion. Dating from the second quarter of the thirteenth century, they are among a group of texts written in English at a time when the language of literature and the court was Anglo-Norman French, and the language of church and state was Latin. The text for which this group is named, The Wooing of Our Lord is also a highly skilled composition, combining beautiful and poetic expression with a profound affective theology. Its first-person female narrator speaks directly to Christ, becoming the voice of the reader whom the text guides through a passionate meditation upon the magnitude of Christ's love, his sufferings in his Passion, and the response of the individual soul.

Catherine Innes-Parker's graceful new translation is paired with the original Middle English dialect in a facing-page format.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551113821
• ISBN 13: 9781551113821
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Catherine Innes-Parker