{"product_id":"feeling-like-saints-lollard-writings-after-wyclif-hardback-9780801452819","title":"Feeling Like Saints; Lollard Writings After Wyclif (Hardback) 9780801452819","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFeeling Like Saints\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLollard Writings After Wyclif\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFiona Somerset (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801452819\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 May 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeeling Like Saints\u003c\/i\u003e, [Fiona] Somerset's magnum opus on Lollard literature, displays her extensive knowledge of the subject and models a new approach to the literature that will be influential for a long time to come.... \u003ci\u003eFeeling Like Saints\u003c\/i\u003e is a pioneering book in Lollard studies and in the larger field of vernacular English literature. The vitality of any scholarly field depends upon the ability of its practitioners to find new objects, ask new questions, and develop new skills of analysis. \u003ci\u003eFeeling Like Saints\u003c\/i\u003e does all these things and more.\u003c\/p\u003e - Emily Steiner (Modern Philology) \u003cp\u003eSumerset presents her case in assured style, but is far from dogmatic, instead setting out her contentions in order to engage in a dialogue with her readers and inviting their responses. Her book is thus both stimulating and enjoyable and will doubtless lead to further lively and productive debate. It should therefore be read not just by those interested specifically in the lollards, or in heresy, but by any scholar seeking to understand the wider complexities and interactions between later medieval religious ideologies and practices.\u003c\/p\u003e - Katherine J. Lewis (Review of English Studies) \u003cp\u003eWritten accessibly with verve and forthrightness,\u003ci\u003e Feeling Like Saints \u003c\/i\u003eis an important book that paints a distinctive picture of Lollard culture and textuality. Somerset's intelligentand weighty treatment of her corpus of texts gives richness and subtlety to this picture, and in doing so provides a wealth of material and issues for future investigation.\u003c\/p\u003e - Ian Johnson (Speculum) \u003cp\u003eSomerset's project thinks through the feelings lollard writers cultivated in order to compose themselves and their audiences. Unlike Bale, her argument focuses on the specifically textual rendering of a particular religious subjectivity....And, while lollard writers are not unique in their suggestion that a proper ordering of the emotions in accordance with a rational disposition of the will amounts to virtue, Somerset is masterful at showing how the feelings that lollard writers taught their audiences promoted a virtuous form of love that held this religious community together\u003c\/p\u003e - Holly A. Crocker, University of South Carolina (Exemplaria)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Lollard\" is the name given to followers of John Wyclif, the English dissident theologian who was dismissed from Oxford University in 1381 for his arguments regarding the eucharist.\u003c\/b\u003e A forceful and influential critic of the ecclesiastical status quo in the late fourteenth century, Wyclif's thought was condemned at the Council of Constance in 1415. While lollardy has attracted much attention in recent years, much of what we think we know about this English religious movement is based on records of heresy trials and anti-lollard chroniclers. In\u003ci\u003e Feeling Like Saints\u003c\/i\u003e, Fiona Somerset demonstrates that this approach has limitations. A better basis is the five hundred or so manuscript books from the period (1375–1530) containing materials translated, composed, or adapted by lollard writers themselves. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese writings provide rich evidence for how lollard writers collaborated with one another and with their readers to produce a distinctive religious identity based around structures of feeling. Lollards wanted to feel like saints. From Wyclif they drew an extraordinarily rigorous ethic of mutual responsibility that disregarded both social status and personal risk. They recalled their commitment to this ethic by reading narratives of physical suffering and vindication, metaphorically martyring themselves by inviting scorn for their zeal, and enclosing themselves in the virtues rather than the religious cloister. Yet in many ways they were not that different from their contemporaries, especially those with similar impulses to exceptional holiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part One\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Lollard Pastoral Program: Reform from Below\u003cbr\u003e 2. God's Law: Loving, Learning, and Teaching\u003cbr\u003e 3. Lollard Prayer: Religious Practice and Everyday Life\u003cbr\u003e Part Two\u003cbr\u003e 4. Lollard Tales\u003cbr\u003e 5. Lollard Parabiblia\u003cbr\u003e Part Three\u003cbr\u003e 6. Moral Fantasie: Normative Allegory in Lollard Writings\u003cbr\u003e 7. Lollard Forms of Living\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: Brief Descriptions of Frequently Cited Manuscripts\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: The Pastoral Syllabus of SS74 and a Detailed Summary of the Sermons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739409543448,"sku":"9780801452819","price":49.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/feeling-like-saints-lollard-writings-after-wyclif-hardback-9780801452819","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}