Balaam's Ass: Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation : : Volume 1: Frameworks, Arguments, English to 1250 /

Balaam's Ass: Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation : : Volume 1: Frameworks, Arguments, English to 1250 / / Nicholas Watson.

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 medieva...

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Watson, Nicholas,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • General Preface
  • Conventions
  • General Introduction: The Prophesying Ass: Patterns and Premises
  • PART I. BEFORE AND AFTER THE ENGLISH REFORMATION: CHURCH HISTORY, NATIONAL HISTORY, SCHOLARLY HISTORY
  • Chapter 1. The Diglossic Contract
  • Chapter 2. Anglican Historiography
  • Chapter 3. Romantic Philology
  • Chapter 4. Catholic Apologetics
  • Chapter 5. Medieval Studies and Modernism
  • PART II. THE MEDIEVAL IDEA OF THE VERNACULAR: MODELS, TERMS, CONCEPTS
  • Chapter 6. Christian Teaching Across the Longue Durée
  • Chapter 7. Theology and the Christian Community
  • Chapter 8. The Vernacular as a Clerical Construct
  • Chapter 9. Institutional Stance and Social Address
  • Chapter 10. The Vernacular Archive
  • PART III. ENGLISH IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES: LANGUAGE POLITICS AND MONASTIC REFORM
  • Chapter 11. Old English in the Long Twelfth Century
  • Chapter 12. The Benedictine Vernacular Canon I: Tenth Century
  • Chapter 13. The Benedictine Vernacular Canon II: Eleventh Century
  • Chapter 14. English in Monastery, Minster, and Court
  • Chapter 15. The Contradictions of Benedictine English
  • PART IV. FROM OLD ENGLISH TO EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH: CONTINUITY, ADAPTATION, SECULARIZATION
  • Chapter 16. The Narrowing of Written English
  • Chapter 17. The Transformation of Insular History
  • Chapter 18. The New Pastoralia I: Secular Priests and Regular Canons
  • Chapter 19. The New Pastoralia II: Diocesan Preaching Books
  • Chapter 20. The New Pastoralia III: Anchoresses and the City
  • Coda to Volume 1
  • Appendix: Tables of Dates, Texts, and Persons
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Manuscripts
  • General Index
  • Acknowledgments

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