Pepysian Meditations on the Passion of Christ

Pepysian Meditations on the Passion of Christ
Author: Mayumi Taguchi
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3825346307

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The Middle English prose ‘Pepysian Meditations on the Passion of Christ’ (PMPC) survives uniquely in Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2125 and has not previously been published. It is one of several Middle English translations of the Passion sequence of the pseudo-Bonaventuran Latin ‘Meditationes Vitae Christi’ (MVC). This part of the MVC circulated independently and in this form is known in modern scholarship as the ‘Meditationes de Passione Christi’ (MPC). The editors argue that although the Middle English version in Pepys 2125 followed the model of the MPC, it is probable that the translation derives directly from a recension of the MPC. Although the translator handles the original with a degree of freedom, the text is not indebted to other sources. The Introduction includes an extensive description of the manuscript which is a late medieval devotional miscellany, and a detailed account of the language of the PMPC. It also addresses the textual tradition out of which the PMPC grew and the work of the translator. The edited text is followed by a commentary, glossary and bibliography.

Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions

Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions
Author: Jennifer N. Brown
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2021
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1903153964

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Essays exploring the great religious and devotional works of the Middle Ages in their manuscript and other contexts.

Benjamin Franklin's English

Benjamin Franklin's English
Author: Yoko Iyeiri
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2024-11-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1040134890

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This book delves into Benjamin Franklin’s English, illustrating the variable nature of 18th-century American English and his stylistic manipulation of the potentiality of English. Utilizing corpus methodologies, it offers researchers in historical sociolinguistics unique insights. Benjamin Franklin is one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and while his achievements have been well established in the history of America, his linguistic activities have been explored only to a lesser extent. Iyeiri examines his letters and autobiography, which provide linguists with opportunities to study his language. The book is structured using the “form-to-function” framework. The first part focuses on different lexical items one by one, and can be read in the order readers want, whilst in the second part, Iyeiri stitches the arguments together, discussing various grammatical features across different lexical items. This book is a fantastic reference for students and scholars of historical linguistics, varieties of English, and World Englishes.

Meditations on the Passion

Meditations on the Passion
Author: Sussana Tamaro
Publisher: Scepter Publishers
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1594172447

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The type of faith transmitted by Susanna Tamaro, as she contemplates the fourteen stations of the cross, is not one that has risen beyond the lost path of the world. Instead, at the depth of Tamaro's insight and contemplation, is love for Love, and a desire to follow the small path that leads directly to Christ. As she helps to revive the great drama of human history- death on a cross by the God Who is Life- she proposes to readers a lifestyle that removes all obstacles of the world through empowered faith.