Description
Book SynopsisOffers a work of late medieval English vernacular theology. This book includes the results of a collation of the 71 known surviving manuscripts and early prints.
Trade ReviewThis is an impressive edition that will be indispensable for future scholars of Love’s Mirror, as well as for scholars interested in compositional techniques and issues of authorship in derivative texts, and in late medieval literature of spiritual instruction and its interaction with controversial and heterodox practice and doctrine in England and on the Continent. * Marleen Cré, Boekbesprekingen, Ons Geestelijk Erf 79(1), 101-104 *
This work has received at the hand of Michael G. Sargent a sophisticated and excellent treatment. The quality of the text […] serves to make this the text to use for all future work on Love. The book is thus both the standard critical edition for scholars as well as an accessible text for undergraduates. What is clear, however, is that the writings of Nicholas Love have received within this critical edition their fullest and most comprehensive presentation. * Journal of English and Germanic Philology *
One rarely sees any longer a definitive edition of this sort, and Exeter University Press is to be commended for bringing out such a complex book. Sargent’s edition will help consolidate and guide the study of English ‘vernacular theology’ for some decades to come. * Ecclesiastical History, volume 57/3. *
The fruit of a life’s labours, it authoritatively and comprehensively sets out the Mirror’s text, and its political and ecclesiastical contexts, for at least a generation or two to come. * Ecclesiastical History, volume 57/3. *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
PrefaceColour Plates Table of Affiliations
List of Manuscripts and Early Prints
Introduction PART 1: HISTORICAL
Meditations on the Life of Christ and Franciscan Spirituality
Secular and Ecclesiastical Politics and the Foundation of Mount Grace Charterhouse
The Transformation of the Meditationes Vitae Christi
The Anti-Wycliffite Stance of the Mirror
The Mirror and Vernacular Theology in Fifteenth-Century England
PART 2: EDITORIAL
The Evidence of the Manuscripts
The Textual Argument
Editorial Conventions
TEXT 1
Table of Contents
``Attende'' Note and ``Memorandum''
Proem
Die Lune [Monday]
Die Martis [Tuesday]
Die Mercurij [Wednesday]
Die Jouis [Thursday]
Die Veneris [Friday]
Die Sabbati [Saturday]
Die Dominica [Sunday]
De Sacramento [Treatise on the Sacrament]
CRITICAL APPARATUS
EXPLANATORY NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
SELECT GLOSSARY
INDEXES
Index of Sources, Citations, References and Parallels
Index of Manuscripts
General Index of Names and Matters
