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Companion to The Boke of Gostely Grace

The Middle English Translation and its European Vernacular Contexts

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvNaoë Kukita Yoshikawa,Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa,Anne Mouron

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The Boke of Gostely Grace is a Middle English translation of the Liber specialis gratiae by the German visionary Mechthild of Hackeborn (1241–1298), a Benedictine/Cistercian nun at the convent of Helfta. This new Companion will add momentum to the current interdisciplinary and theoretical debate surrounding Latin texts and their translations into the vernacular, including a number of issues regarding women’s literary culture. It complements and supplements the new critical edition of the text, The Boke of Gostely Grace, edited by Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa and Anne Mouron with Mark Atherton, published by Liverpool University Press in 2022.A comprehensive introduction is followed by three parts. Part 1 examines vernacular translations of the Liber specialis gratiae from the late medieval and early modern periods in German, Dutch, Swedish, Italian and French. Part 2 explores a wide-range of critical issues in The Boke of Gostely Grace, and in particular aspects of the spirituality of Helfta. The volume concludes in Part 3 with aspects of the Last Things at Helfta, more specifically purgatorial piety and the theme of the dying and the dead. The volume as a whole provides a new and nuanced understanding of how the mystical literary output of Helfta circulated and was received in the late medieval literary culture of England and Europe.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-02-03
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieExeter Medieval Texts and Studies
Antal sidor360
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781805965985

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Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa is Professor in Medieval English Literature and Culture, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shizuoka University. Her publications include (ed.)Medicine, Religion and Gender in Late Medieval Culture (D. S. Brewer, 2015) and (ed. with Anne Mouron, with the assistance of Mark Atherton) The Boke of Gostely Grace: The Middle English Translation, A Critical Edition from Oxford, MS Bodley 220 (LUP 2022). Anne Mouron is a senior member of Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford. Her publications include (ed. with Christiania Whitehead and Denis Renevey) The Doctrine of the Hert: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary (University of Exeter Press, 2010); The Manere of Good Lyvyng: A Middle English Translation of Pseudo-Bernard's Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem (Brepols, 2014); (ed. with Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa, with the assistance of Mark Atherton) The Boke of Gostely Grace: The Middle English Translation, A Critical Edition from Oxford, MS Bodley 220 (LUP, 2022).

Introduction, Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa and Anne MouronPART 1: The Text: Latin Manuscripts and European Vernacular TranslationsChapter 1. Linus Ubl Liber or Libri: The Latin transmission of Mechthild’s text’Chapter 2. Edmund Wareham Wanitzek, ‘This Has Been Written from the Book of Spiritual Grace’: Extracting, Compiling, and Printing the Liber in German’Chapter 3. Marleen Cré, Mechthild of Hackeborn’s Liber specialis gratiae in Middle Dutch: Het boek der bijzondere genadeChapter 4. Elin Andersson, Ingela Hedström and Mikko Kauko “... because of the great love I feel for this book and its sacred knowledge”: Jöns Budde’s Swedish translation of St Mechthild of Hackeborn’s Liber specialis gratiaeChapter 5. Ugo Vignuzzi and Patrizia Bertini Malgarini, (Trans. by Alessandra Petrina), Mechthild in Germany, Melchiade in Umbria: The Gubbio Vernacularisation and the St Clare Religious ObservanceChapter 6. Anne Mouron, “Here, Madame, is a heavenly present”: The Seventeenth-Century Translation into French of Mechthild of Hackeborn’s Liber specialis gratiaePART 2: The Boke of Gostely Grace: Spirituality and the Religious Imaginary of the Helfta CommunityChapter 7. Christiania Whitehead, Church and House: Mechthild of Hackeborn’s Architectural Imaginary in its Fifteenth Century Religious ContextChapter 8. Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa, ‘“A trefold corde of þe colour of gold from our lordes herte”: Holy Mediatrix and Holy Solidarity in Mechthild of Hackborn’s Boke of Gostely Grace’Chapter 9. Anne Mouron, “As bornyst sylver þe lef on slydeȝ”: Trees, Flower, Gems and Precious Metals in The Boke of Gostely GraceChapter 10. Liz Herbert McAvoy, Mechthild’s Flourishing Gardens: Gender, Sexuality and ‘Vegetal Being’ in the Boke of Gostely GraceChapter 11. Marleen Cré, Snapshots of a Role Model: Excerpts of Mechthild of Hackeborn’s Liber specialis gratiae in Late Medieval Manuscripts in EnglandPART 3: Death and Purgatorial Piety of the Helfta CommunityChapter 12. Alexandra Barratt, Death and the Maidens: Gertrude the Great and the Passing of MechthildChapter 13. Barbara Newman, Saving Souls at HelftaBibliographyIndex