Looking Inward : : Devotional Reading and the Private Self in Late Medieval England / / Jennifer Bryan.
"You must see yourself." The exhortation was increasingly familiar to English men and women in the two centuries before the Reformation. They encountered it repeatedly in their devotional books, the popular guides to spiritual self-improvement that were reaching an ever-growing readership...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on Spelling and Punctuation
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. A Very Inward Man
- Chapter 2. Seeing a Difference: Mirrors and Texts
- Chapter 3. Private Passions
- Chapter 4. Profitable Sights: The Showings of Julian of Norwich
- Chapter 5. Hoccleve's Glasses
- Afterward
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Acknowledgments