The Powers of the Holy: Religion, Politics, and Gender in Late Medieval English Culture

by Lynn Staley and David Aers

Book Overview

The Powers of the Holy explores ways in which the language and images of Christian devotion in late fourteenth-century England were inextricably bound up with a variety of social and political relations. Addressing a wide range of texts, David Aers and Lynn Staley analyze the complex, shifting, and often extremely subtle forms in which writers responded to this situation. Aers concentrates on representations of the humanity of Christ. He unfolds the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027101542X
• ISBN13: 9780271015422
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"