The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Medieval Religious Literature

Introduction; R.Blumenfeld-Kosinski, D.Robertson & N.Warren ENGLISH Rolle Playing: 'And the Word Became Flesh'; L.Manter Disruptive Simplicity: Gaytryge's Translation of Archbishop Thoresby's Injunctions; M.Fitzgibbons Excitative Speech: Latinate Theory and Vernacular Consequences in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries; F.Somerset FRENCH Translating Scripture for Ma dame de Champagne : The Old French 'Paraphrase' of Psalm Forty-Four (Eructavit); M.Powell The Mirror and the Rose: Marguerite Porete's Reading of Jean de Meun; B.Newman Degulleville's Pèlerinage de Jésus-Christ : A Poem of Courtly Devotion; M.Boulton The Royal Vernacular: Poet and Patron in Christine de Pizan's Charles V and the Sept psaumes allégorisés ; L.Waters SPANISH Female Patronage of Vernacular Religious Works in Fifteenth-Century Castile: Aristocratic Women and Their Confessors; R.E.Surtz Cisneros and the Translation of Women's Spirituality; E.T.Howe 'Este gran Dios de las cavallerías' (This Great God of Chivalric Deeds): St. Teresa's Performances of the Novels of Chivalry; C.Slade GERMAN AND FLEMISH Can God Speak in the Vernacular?; E.M.W.Pederson Thieves and Carnivals: Gender in German Dominican Literature of the Fourteenth Century; U.Wiethaus The Erosion of a Monopoly: German Religious Literature in the Fifteenth Century; W.Williams-Krapp ITALIAN Spiritual Writings between Italian Monasteries and Courts: A Devotional Book for Lucretia Borgia; G.Zarri