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Poetry of Charles d'Orléans and His Circle: A Critical Edition of BnF MS fr. 25458 , ed. John Fox & Mary-Jo Arn

Poetry of Charles d'Orléans and His Circle: A Critical Edition of BnF MS fr. 25458 , ed. John Fox... BESPRECHUNGEN Marian collections, whether concerns of law, texts and Jewishness were indeed “specially related in the English contexts” (8). An increasingly literate culture and tensions between Christian and Jewish populations were not historical circumstances specific to England. The historical readings sketched here are intriguing possibilities. Boyarin implies, for example, that the redemption of Theophilus’s charter might have been particularly resonant at the moment when an indebted English person might resent Jews as holders of financial bonds. The resemblance is indeed suggestive, but it is a difficult case to prove. This book is, necessarily, a partial study. As Boyarin makes clear, her material is selected from a larger whole: she discusses 33 of the 171 English miracles (14),2 with some examples clearly privileged. Her Afterword invites other scholars to take up aspects of the legends such as gender, reading habits, patronage, illustrations of miracles, the relation between general and local miracles. Still other themes of the miracle stories can be glimpsed in the interstices of this study. Mary’s mercy to the very worst of sinners teaches the power of penitence and confession: an object such as the charter of Theophilus is a concrete sign of that power. Several of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie de Gruyter

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Publisher
de Gruyter
Copyright
Copyright ? 2011 Walter de Gruyter All rights reserved
Subject
BESPRECHUNGEN
ISSN
0340-5222
eISSN
1865-8938
DOI
10.1515/angl.2011.075
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Abstract

BESPRECHUNGEN Marian collections, whether concerns of law, texts and Jewishness were indeed “specially related in the English contexts” (8). An increasingly literate culture and tensions between Christian and Jewish populations were not historical circumstances specific to England. The historical readings sketched here are intriguing possibilities. Boyarin implies, for example, that the redemption of Theophilus’s charter might have been particularly resonant at the moment when an indebted English person might resent Jews as holders of financial bonds. The resemblance is indeed suggestive, but it is a difficult case to prove. This book is, necessarily, a partial study. As Boyarin makes clear, her material is selected from a larger whole: she discusses 33 of the 171 English miracles (14),2 with some examples clearly privileged. Her Afterword invites other scholars to take up aspects of the legends such as gender, reading habits, patronage, illustrations of miracles, the relation between general and local miracles. Still other themes of the miracle stories can be glimpsed in the interstices of this study. Mary’s mercy to the very worst of sinners teaches the power of penitence and confession: an object such as the charter of Theophilus is a concrete sign of that power. Several of

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Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologiede Gruyter

Published: Dec 1, 2011

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