English Psalms in the Middle Ages, 1300-1450
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 783
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 978-0198726364
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is the first full-length academic study to explore a wide range of Middle English Psalm translations, adaptations and paraphrases. Its scope is broad, ranging from verse renditions of individual Psalms to verbatim prose translations of the entire Psalter. It foregrounds the centrality of the Psalms to the devotional and literary culture of the late Middle Ages, arguing that the voice of the biblical David provided the penitent Christian with a uniquely articulate and emotive mode of utterance before God. Focussing on the interplay between ‘liturgical’ Latin and ‘devotional’ vernacular, how English, it asks, were the English Psalms?
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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