Politics of Middle English Parables - Fiction, Theology, and Social Practice Raschko MaryPevná vazba
Politics of Middle English Parables - Fiction, Theology, and Social Practice Raschko MaryPevná vazba The politics of Middle English parables examines the dynamic intersection of fiction, theology and…
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Politics of Middle English Parables - Fiction, Theology, and Social Practice Raschko MaryPevná vazba
The politics of Middle English parables examines the dynamic intersection of fiction, theology and social practice in late-medieval England. While most scholarship approaches the translated stories as stable vehicles of Christian teaching, this book highlights the many variations and points of conflict across Middle English renditions of the same story. Parables occupy a prominent place in Middle English literature, appearing in dream visions and story collections as well as in lives of Christ and devotional treatises.
Analysis of these diverse retellings reveals not what a given parable meant in a definitive sense but rather how Middle English parables inscribe the ideologies, power In parables related to labour, social inequality, charity and penance, the book locates a creative theological discourse through which writers attempted to re-construct Christian belief and practice.
Theology and Social Theory
Handbook of Middle English