04255nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-65076-5 DE-He213 20251030113047.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240917s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031650765 978-3-031-65076-5 10.1007/978-3-031-65076-5 doi PN661-694 DSBB bicssc LIT011000 bisacsh DSBB thema Tinkle, Theresa. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 84474 Imagining Jesus Christ in Middle English Literature, 1275-1475 [electronic resource] : Royal Traitor, Heroic Lamb / by Theresa Tinkle. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XVII, 251 p. 5 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The New Middle Ages, 2945-5944 Chapter 1. -Reading Medieval God-Texts. -Chapter 2 -- King at the Nativity. -Chapter 3. -King, Traitor, and Thief at the Passion. -Chapter 4. -Sir John Mandeville’s God(s). -Chapter 5. -“Verray God & Verray Man”: Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. -Chapter 6 -- York’s Jesus: Crowned King and Traitor Attainted Afterword. This book interprets Jesus Christ as a complicated, disunified literary character in Middle English literature, where he appears variously as king, traitor, victorious conqueror, sacrificial lamb, heroic knight, lover, and spouse--often as several contradictory figures in a single work. These tropes derive from Scripture, doctrines about Christ's two natures, and theories of redemption. This book examines the full range of representations in Southern Passion, Northern Passion, Pepysian Gospel Harmony, Stanzaic Life of Christ, Cursor Mundi, Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, Sir John Mandeville’s Book, the York Play, and Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Love. Although Christ's two natures are well represented in existing scholarship, many traditions have been overlooked, including commonplace treatments of Christ as both a traitor and king, conqueror and sacrificial lamb, hero and lover. As writers call upon audiences to feel compassion for Jesus's suffering, they almost universally express antipathy toward his Jewish torturers, complicating our ideas about affective piety. In these works, the Virgin Mary is less exemplary for her compassion than for her understanding of doctrine. In short, this book offers new perspectives on vernacular Christology between about 1275 and 1475. Theresa Tinkle is a Professor within the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, USA. Previous publications include Medieval Venuses and Cupids: Sexuality and Hermeneutics in English Poetry (1996) and Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis (Palgrave, 2010). Theresa’s academic training and publications include the study of medieval English and Latin literature, the medieval reception of the Bible, gender and sexuality studies, paleography and manuscript studies, composition and pedagogy, and disability studies. . Literature, Medieval. 66929 Christianity. 72553 Judaism. 71857 Religion History. 66931 Medieval Literature. 66934 Christianity. 72553 Judaism. 71857 History of Religion. 66936 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031650758 Printed edition: 9783031650772 Printed edition: 9783031650789 The New Middle Ages, 2945-5944 66939 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65076-5 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 63457 63457