A mirror to devout people (Speculum devotorum)
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A mirror to devout people (Speculum devotorum)
（Early English Text Society original series, 346）
Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 2016
1st ed
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Written in the early fifteenth century by an anonymous Carthusian monk at the Sheen Charterhouse
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xlvii]-liv) and indexes
Glossary: p. [219]-235
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This edition of A Mirror to Devout People presents for the first time a Middle English Life of Christ, with additional religious advice, written in the early fifteenth century by a Carthusian monk at the Sheen Charterhouse for a sister at the nearby Bridgettine Syon Abbey. Both the Sheen Charterhouse and Syon were recent royal foundations, established by Henry V. The Mirror is an important example of the devotional works produced to satisfy demand among
laity as well as professed religious, wanting to read lives of Christ in the years following the repressive legislation of Archbishop Arundel (1409), which placed severe restrictions on biblical translation into English, intended to limit the spread of heresy. The Mirror, written in the tradition of the highly
successful translation by another Carthusian, Nicholas Love, of Pseudo-Bonaventure's life of Christ, testifies to the demand for such material in pious households.
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