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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1995Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (298 p.) : 4 illusContent type:
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  • 9780812232714
  • 9781512803310
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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