Prophetic Song : : The Psalms as Moral Discourse in Late Medieval England / / Michael P. Kuczynski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Kuczynski, Michael P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: The Middle Ages Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 p.) :; 4 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Abbreviations --; Preface: “...Beatus vitres techyng” --; A Note on Psalm Texts and Middle English Quotations --; Acknowledgments --; Chapter 1. David the “Maker” --; Chapter 2. Imitating David --; Chapter 3. David as a Model of Compunction --; Chapter 4. The Psalms as Models for Middle English Poetry --; Chapter 5. Two Versions of Captivity: Lydgate, the Lollards, and Psalm Complaint --; Chapter 6. William Langland, Radical Psalmist --; Afterword --; Appendixes --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512803310; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512803310
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Michael P. Kuczynski.

A study of the Psalter's influence on the language of prescription and proscription, injunction, command, censure, reproof, and other ethical instruction in late medieval England, as well as exegesis and meditation that clearly had a homiletic or polemic bias. Among the themes is the distinction between the private and public use the Psalms were put to, and the deliberate blurring of that distinction to illustrate the unity between individual salvation and the reform of society.