The politics of Middle English parables
Fiction, theology, and social practice
by Mary Raschko, David Matthews, Anke Bernau
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The politics of Middle English parables argues that these stories' provocative poetics generated varied translations. While many medieval narratives tell audiences how to live, parables stand apart from other instructional stories in their tendency to render the familiar unfamiliar: rife with ambiguity, paradox, and reversals of expectation, gospel parables confuse and frustrate audiences as much as they instruct. These capatious and riddling stories both invited audience interpretation and inspired the construction of new, divergent stories from writers attempting to puzzle out their implications. The book shows how late medieval translators negotiated scriptural portrayals of everyday life relevant to labor laws, social inequality, charity, and penance. As the chapters explore translations in different literary settings, they reveal not what a given parable meant in a definitive sense but rather how these Middle English stories convey the ideologies, power structures, and cultural debates of late-medieval Christianity. For scholars and students of medieval literature, history, and religion, the book provides a new paradigm for approaching familiar biblical stories.
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The politics of Middle English parables argues that these stories' provocative poetics generated varied translations. While many medieval narratives tell audiences how to live, parables stand apart from other instructional stories in their tendency to render the familiar unfamiliar: rife with ambiguity, paradox, and reversals of expectation, gospel parables confuse and frustrate audiences as much as they instruct. These capatious and riddling stories both invited audience interpretation and inspired the construction of new, divergent stories from writers attempting to puzzle out their implications. The book shows how late medieval translators negotiated scriptural portrayals of everyday life relevant to labor laws, social inequality, charity, and penance. As the chapters explore translations in different literary settings, they reveal not what a given parable meant in a definitive sense but rather how these Middle English stories convey the ideologies, power structures, and cultural debates of late-medieval Christianity. For scholars and students of medieval literature, history, and religion, the book provides a new paradigm for approaching familiar biblical stories.
Author Biography
Dr Anke Bernau is Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date October 2018
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526131195 / 1526131196
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- ReadershipGeneral/trade
- Publish StatusPublished
- SeriesManchester Medieval Literature and Culture
- Reference Code10959
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