{"product_id":"the-middle-english-metrical-paraphrase-of-the-old-testament-the-ca-1518-translation-and-the-middle-dutch-analogue-mariken-van-nieumeghen-paperback","title":"The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament: The Ca. 1518 Translation and the Middle Dutch Analogue, Mariken Van Nieumeghen - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Livingston\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the Bible upon which it is based, the metrical paraphrase is unlikely to be a text read cover-to-cover by the faint-hearted. The \u003ci\u003eParaphrase\u003c\/i\u003e is, in several ways, a remarkable artifact of the Chaucerian period, one that can reveal a great deal about vernacular biblical literature in Middle English, about readership and lay understandings of the Bible, about the relationship between Christians and Jews in late medieval England, about the environment in which the Lollards and other reformers worked, about perceived roles of women in history and in society, and even about the composition of medieval drama. The \u003ci\u003eParaphrase\u003c\/i\u003e-poet's proclamation that he intends to write stories \"for sympyll men\" (line 19) to understand the Scriptures and be engaged by them-\"That men may lyghtly leyre \/ to tell and undertake yt\" (lines 23-24)-thus combines the profit of sacred literature with the pleasure of the secular. This is Horace's \u003ci\u003eutile et dulce\u003c\/i\u003e (\"both useful and pleasing\") principle at its clearest, a singular example of the didacticism that characterizes so much of medieval literature, an aesthetic of pedagogic efficacy that is inseparably linked to the essential component of true pleasure in the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Livingston is Associate Professor of English at The Citadel, in Charleston, S.C. He is an author of both fiction and non-fiction and has published on topics as diverse as early Christianity, Tolkien, and James Joyce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 712\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48505512198393,"sku":"9781580441506","price":22.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/7VhWNrbyo-9781580441506.webp?v=1781043810","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-middle-english-metrical-paraphrase-of-the-old-testament-the-ca-1518-translation-and-the-middle-dutch-analogue-mariken-van-nieumeghen-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}