Balaam's Ass: Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation

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  • Balaam's Ass: Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation Book Detail

  • Author : Nicholas Watson
  • Release Date : 2022-06-21
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 617
  • ISBN 13 : 0812298349
  • File Size : 28,28 MB

Balaam's Ass: Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation by Nicholas Watson PDF Summary

Book Description: For over seven hundred years, bodies of writing in vernacular languages served an indispensable role in the religious and intellectual culture of medieval Christian England, yet the character and extent of their importance have been insufficiently recognized. A longstanding identification of medieval western European Christianity with the Latin language and a lack of awareness about the sheer variety and quantity of vernacular religious writing from the English Middle Ages have hampered our understanding of the period, exercising a tenacious hold on much scholarship. Bringing together work across a range of disciplines, including literary study, Christian theology, social history, and the history of institutions, Balaam's Ass attempts the first comprehensive overview of religious writing in early England's three most important vernacular languages, Old English, Insular French, and Middle English, between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. Nicholas Watson argues not only that these texts comprise the oldest continuous tradition of European vernacular writing, but that they are essential to our understanding of how Christianity shaped and informed the lives of individuals, communities, and polities in the Middle Ages. This first of three volumes lays out the long post-Reformation history of the false claim that the medieval Catholic Church was hostile to the vernacular. It analyzes the complicated idea of the vernacular, a medieval innovation instantiated in a huge body of surviving vernacular religious texts. Finally, it focuses on the first, long generation of these writings, in Old English and early Middle English.

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