Cushions, Kitchens and Christ
Mapping the Domestic in Late Medieval Religious Writing
Author(s) Louise Campion
Language: English
Genre(s): Medieval
Series: Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages
- January 2022 · 240 pages ·234x156mm
- · Hardback - 9781786838308
- · eBook - pdf - 9781786838315
- · eBook - epub - 9781786838322
About The Book
Endorsements
‘Compelling and illuminating – this volume offers a new reading of the fifteenth-century vernacular, devotional texts read predominantly by women, focusing on the imagined textual households and the literal domestic sphere. Cushions, Kitchens and Christ also makes a significant contribution to the study of the texts, such as The Doctrine of the Hert and Mechthild of Hackeborn’s revelations.’
-Professor Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa, Shizuoka University
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
List of Manuscript Sigla
Prefatory Notes
Introduction
Chapter One: The Kitchen of the Heart, Spiritual Furniture and Noble Visitors: Mapping the Domestic in The Doctrine of the Hert
Chapter Two: The Domesticity of the Sacred Heart in Mechthild of Hackeborn’s Booke of Gostlye Grace
Chapter Three: Marriage, Storehouses and Celestial Visitors: Domestic Frameworks in Bridget of Sweden’s Liber Celestis
Chapter Four: From Wanderer to Householder: The Domestication of Jesus, the Disciples and the Holy Family in Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography