| 1. |  € 85,00 | EAN-13: 9782503520711 A. Barratt
Anne Bulkeley and her Book. Fashioning Female Piety in Early Tudor England
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2009 | | Collana: | Texts and Transitions |
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This study is focused on BL MS Harley 494, a small manuscript
book which can be dated between 1532 and 1535 and which has many of
the features of a preces privatae volume, or private
prayer book. It contains prayers in English and Latin but also a
number of brief devotional treatises in English. MS Harley 494
possesses two more features of interest: it belonged to a Hampshire
widow, Anne Bulkeley (and possibly later to her daughter Anne, a
nun at Amesbury Priory); and it emerged from a Birgittine textual
community. Barratt edits and annotates the complete manuscript to
provide an accessible and informative edition of this little known
manuscript. However, Anne Bulkeley and her Book is not a
conventional edition of a late Middle English text. Rather, Barratt
carefully contextualizes the manuscript within its historical
background just before the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and
meticulously investigates the varied, and often unusual, sources of
many of the individual items in the book. In addition, the
discussion encompasses several related manuscripts (principally
Lambeth Palace MS 3600 and the so-called Burnet Psalter (Aberdeen
University Library MS 25)). This broad focus enables the volume to
examine not only the evolution of the manuscript as a whole, but
also to answer wider questions of its owners identity, her
family connections, and her (and her books) place in
literary, cultural, and religious history.
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