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Book The Earliest English Translation of the First Three Books of the De Imitatione Christi

Download or read book The Earliest English Translation of the First Three Books of the De Imitatione Christi written by Thomas (a Kempis.) and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book    The    Earliest English Translation of the First Three Books of the De Imitatione Christi

Download or read book The Earliest English Translation of the First Three Books of the De Imitatione Christi written by John-K ..... Ingram and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Earliest English Translation of the First Three Books of the De Imitatione Christi     Also The Earliest Printed Translation of the Whole Work

Download or read book The Earliest English Translation of the First Three Books of the De Imitatione Christi Also The Earliest Printed Translation of the Whole Work written by Thomas (von Kempen) and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Imitation of Christ

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  • Author : William C. Creasy
  • Publisher : Mercer University Press
  • Release : 2015-09-15
  • ISBN : 9780881460971
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book The Imitation of Christ written by William C. Creasy and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Imitation of Christ has appeared in more editions and in more languages than any other book except the Bible. Samuel Johnson once remarked to Bowell that it "must be a good book, as the world has opened its arms to receive it." Others have praised it as well, including Thomas Carlyle, George Eliot, Thomas De Quincey, and Matthew Arnold. Among the religious, St. Ignatius Loyola translated it, and Pope John Paul I was said to have been reading it the night that he died. It has been standard fare in religious training and personal devotion for centuries. Yet today, few people know the Imitation and those who do more often than not think it hopelessly out of date, a pre-Vatican II relic, full of contempt for the world and self-loathing. It is a curious state of affairs, and one that reveals more about a contemporary audience's response to the book than it does about the book itself. When a contemporary reader encounters a line such as "this is the highest wisdom: through contempt of the world to aspire to the kingdom of heaven," his response is a very different one from that of a fifteenth - or nineteenth-century reader. For an "informed response" (as Stanley Fish would say) to the contemptus mundi theme, the reader must draw deeply on a vast complex of literary, linguistic, historical, and theological knowledge. Creasy's translation of the Imitation strives to recreate a text that provides an analogous experience to that of the fifteenth-century reader. Relying heavily on reader-response theory, he incorporates an "informed reader's" response into the text itself. Where possible, the text echoes both the deep structure and the surface structure of the Latin-even to the point of replicating sentence structures and rhetorical devices while avoiding any distortion of the reader's experience. Although the language and style of his translation has been crafted for modern readers, the fervor and power of the original text have not been lost. Dr. Creasy's work on the Imitation of Christ has become the standard translation of this spiritual classic, bringing it to life for a new generation of readers. Book jacket.

Book Catholic and Protestant Translations of the Imitatio Christi  1425   1650

Download or read book Catholic and Protestant Translations of the Imitatio Christi 1425 1650 written by Maximilian von Habsburg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Imitatio Christi is considered one of the classic texts of Western spirituality. There were 800 manuscript copies and more than 740 different printed editions of the Imitatio between its composition in the fifteenth century and 1650. During the Reformation period, the book retained its popularity with both Protestants and Catholics; with the exception of the Bible it was the most frequently printed book of the sixteenth century. In this pioneering study, the remarkable longevity of the Imitatio across geographical, chronological, linguistic and confessional boundaries is explored. Rather than attributing this enduring popularity to any particular quality of universality, this study suggests that its key virtue was its appropriation by different interest groups. That such an apparently Catholic and monastic work could be adopted and adapted by both Protestant reformers and Catholic activists (including the Jesuits) poses intriguing questions about our understanding of Reformation and Counter Reformation theology and confessional politics. This study focuses on the editions of the Imitatio printed in English, French, German and Latin between the 1470s and 1650. It offers an ambitious and comprehensive survey of the process of translation and its impact and contribution to religious culture. In so doing it offers a fresh analysis of spirituality and devotion within their proper late medieval and early modern contexts. It also demonstrates that spirituality was not a peripheral dimension of religion, but remains at the very heart of both Catholic and Protestant self-perception and identity.

Book Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore  Including the Additions Made Since 1882

Download or read book Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore Including the Additions Made Since 1882 written by George Peabody Library and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy

Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy written by Royal Irish Academy and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Routledge Revivals  Key Figures in Medieval Europe  2006

Download or read book Routledge Revivals Key Figures in Medieval Europe 2006 written by Richard K. Emmerson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 1709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2006, Key Figures in Medieval Europe, brings together in one volume the most important people who lived in medieval Europe between 500 and 1500. Gathered from the biographical entries from the series, Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, these A-Z biographical entries discuss the lives of over 575 individuals who have had a historical impact in such areas as politics, religion, and the arts. It includes individuals from places such as medieval England, France, Germany, Iberia, Italy, and Scandinavia, as well as those from the Jewish and Islamic worlds. In one convenient volume, students, scholars, and interested readers will find the biographies of the people whose actions, beliefs, creations, and writings shaped the Middle Ages, one of the most fascinating periods of world history.

Book Cyberformalism

Download or read book Cyberformalism written by Daniel Shore and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking study of how abstract linguistic signs circulate in literature, intellectual history, and popular culture. Linguistic forms are essential to meaning: like words, they make a semantic contribution to the things we say. We inherit them from past writers and speakers and fill them with different words to produce novel utterances. They shape us and the ways we interpret the world. Yet prevalent assumptions about language and the constraints of print-finding tools have kept linguistic forms and their histories hidden from view. Drawing on recent work in cognitive and construction grammar along with tools and methods developed by corpus and computational linguists, Daniel Shore’s Cyberformalism represents a new way forward for digital humanities scholars seeking to understand the textual past. Championing a qualitative approach to digital archives, Shore uses the abstract pattern-matching capacities of search engines to explore precisely those combinatory aspects of language—word order, syntax, categorization—discarded by the “bag of words” quantitative methods that are dominant in the digital humanities. While scholars across the humanities have long explored the histories of words and phrases, Shore argues that increasingly sophisticated search tools coupled with growing full-text digital archives make it newly possible to study the histories of linguistic forms. In so doing, Shore challenges a range of received metanarratives and complicates some of the most basic concepts of literary study. Touching on canonical works by Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, and Kant, even as it takes the full diversity of digitized texts as its purview, Cyberformalism asks scholars of literature, history, and culture to revise nothing less than their understanding of the linguistic sign.

Book Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy

Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Imitation of Christ

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  • Author : Thomas a Kempis
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book The Imitation of Christ written by Thomas a Kempis and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Supplementary Catalogue of the Public Library of New South Wales  Sydney for the Years 1888  1910

Download or read book Supplementary Catalogue of the Public Library of New South Wales Sydney for the Years 1888 1910 written by Public Library of New South Wales and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Library

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  • Author : Sir John Young Walker MacAlister
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book The Library written by Sir John Young Walker MacAlister and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book List of Books Forming the Reference in the Reading Room of the British Museum

Download or read book List of Books Forming the Reference in the Reading Room of the British Museum written by British museum and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women s Writing in English  1540 1700

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women s Writing in English 1540 1700 written by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-14 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 brings together new work by scholars across the globe, from some of the founding figures in early modern women's writing to those early in their careers and defining the field now. It investigates how and where women gained access to education, how they developed their literary voice through varied genres including poetry, drama, and letters, and how women cultivated domestic and technical forms of knowledge from recipes and needlework to medicines and secret codes. Chapters investigate the ways in which women's writing was an integral part of the intellectual culture of the period, engaging with male writers and traditions, while also revealing the ways in which women's lives and writings were often distinctly different, from women prophetesses to queens, widows, and servants. It explores the intersections of women writing in English with those writing in French, Spanish, Latin, and Greek, in Europe and in New England, and argues for an archipelagic understanding of women's writing in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and England. Finally, it reflects on--and challenges--the methodologies which have developed in, and with, the field: book and manuscript history, editing, digital analysis, premodern critical race studies, network theory, queer theory, and feminist theory. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 captures the most innovative work on early modern women's writing in English at present.