Description: Balaam's Ass : Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation; Frameworks, Arguments, English to 1250, Hardcover by Watson, Nicholas, ISBN 0812253728, ISBN-13 9780812253726, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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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Book Title: Balaam's Ass : Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation
Number of Pages: 616 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Balaam's Ass: Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation : Volume 1: Frameworks, Arguments, English To 1250
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Item Height: 1.9 in
Publication Year: 2022
Subject: Medieval, Christian Theology / History
Item Weight: 42.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Religion
Author: Nicholas Watson
Item Length: 9.5 in
Series: The Middle Ages Ser.
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
