The Wooing of Our Lord and the Wooing Group Prayers

The Wooing of Our Lordand the Wooing Group prayers occupy a key position in the history of English literature and the development of English religious devotion. Dating from the second quarter of the thirteenth century, they are among a group of texts written in English at a time when the language of literature and the court was Anglo-Norman French, and the language of church and state was Latin. The text for which this group is named, The Wooing of Our Lordis also a highly skilled composition, combining beautiful and poetic expression with a profound affective theology. Its first-person female narrator speaks directly to Christ, becoming the voice of the reader whom the text guides through a passionate meditation upon the magnitude of Christ's love, his sufferings in his Passion, and the response of the individual soul. Catherine Innes-Parker's graceful new translation is paired with the original Middle English dialect in a facing-page format.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551113821
• ISBN13: 9781551113821
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"