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The Wooing of Our Lord and the Wooing Group Prayers
Cather Innes Parker
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Description for The Wooing of Our Lord and the Wooing Group Prayers
Paperback. A new translation, in readable modern English, of an important group of early devotional poems. Editor(s): Innes-Parker, Catherine. Translator(s): Innes-Parker, Catherine. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ; DSBB; HRCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 338.
The Wooing of Our Lord and the Wooing Group prayers occupy a key position in the history of English literature and the development of English religious devotion. Dating from the second quarter of the thirteenth century, they are among a group of texts written in English at a time when the language of literature and the court was Anglo-Norman French, and the language of church and state was Latin. The text for which this group is named, The Wooing of Our Lord is also a highly skilled composition, combining beautiful and poetic expression with a profound affective theology. Its first-person ... Read more
Catherine Innes-Parker’s graceful new translation is paired with the original Middle English dialect in a facing-page format.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Peterborough, Canada
ISBN
9781551113821
SKU
V9781551113821
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Ref
99-1
About Cather Innes Parker
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish-born playwright and political activist. L.W. Conolly is Emeritus Professor of English at Trent University, Canada; an Honorary Fellow, Robinson College, Cambridge University; a Senior Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto, Canada; and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the editor of the Broadview Edition of Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s ... Read more
Reviews for The Wooing of Our Lord and the Wooing Group Prayers
“This edition is a long awaited gift for scholars and students alike. Catherine Innes-Parker has produced an extremely fine volume that includes an edition of all the Wooing Group texts in the original, as well as a deft poetic translation. I know it will be frequently used in both my scholarship and my classes.” — Jennifer Brown, Marymount Manhattan College ... Read more