 | Cultures of Piety: Medieval English Devotional Literature in Translation Subjects: Devotional literature English (Middle) -- Modernized versions; Piety -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages 600–1500 -- Sources; Christian life -- History -- Middle Ages 600–1500 -- Sources; England -- Religious life and customs -- Sources; Devotional texts in late medieval England were notable for their flamboyant piety and their preoccupation with the tortured body of Christ and the grief of the Virgin Mary. Generations of readers internalized and shaped the "cultures of piety"... Anne Clark Bartlett is Assistant Professor of English at DePaul University. She is author of Male Authors, Female Readers , also from Cornell. Thomas H. Bestul is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Texts of the Passion . |
