John Capgrave'S Fifteenth Century (The Middle Ages Series),Used

John Capgrave'S Fifteenth Century (The Middle Ages Series),Used

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ReviewThe freshness and cogency of this book's textual analysis will convince most readers that Winstead's John Capgravesensitive spiritual director, and engaged theological and political commentatoris the version of the man they prefer. English Historical ReviewProduct DescriptionBritain of the fifteenth century was rife with social change, religious dissent, and political upheaval. Amid this ferment lived John CapgraveAustin friar, doctor of theology, leading figure in East Anglian society, and noted author. Nowhere are the tensions and anxieties of this critical period, spanning the close of the medieval and the dawn of early modern eras, more eloquently conveyed than in Capgrave's works.John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century is the first book to explore the major themes of Capgrave's writings and to relate those themes to fifteenthcentury political and cultural debates. Focusing on Capgrave's later works, especially those in English and addressed to lay audiences, it teases out thematic threads that are closely interwoven in Capgrave's Middle English oeuvre: piety, intellectualism, gender, and social responsibility. It refutes the stillprevalent view of Capgrave as a religious and political reactionary and shows, rather, that he used traditional genres to promote his own independent viewpoint on some of the most pressing controversies of his day, including debates over vernacular theology, orthodoxy and dissent, lay (and particularly female) spirituality, and the state of the kingdom under Henry VI.The book situates Capgrave as a figure both in the vibrant literary culture of East Anglia and in European intellectual history. John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century offers a fresh view of orthodoxy and dissent in late medieval England and will interest students of hagiography, religious and cultural history, and Lancastrian politics and society.Book DescriptionRejecting the prevalent view of Capgrave as predictably conservative, John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century contributes to a broader appraisal of fifteenthcentury culture and offers a fresh view of orthodoxy and dissent in preReformation England.About the AuthorKaren A. Winstead is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University and author of Virgin Martyrs: Legends of Sainthood in Late Medieval England.

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