The wooing of our Lord and The Wooing Group prayers
By: edited by Catherine Innes-Parker
Series: Broadview editions; Broadview editions
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Peterborough, Ontario, Canada; Tonawanda, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781551113821
Subjects: Christian literature, English (Middle); Devotional literature, English (Middle); English prose literature; Women; Early works to 1800; Conduct of life; Prayers and devotions; Monasticism and religious orders for women; Rules; Middle English
Other titles: Wooing Group prayers; Wohunge of ure lauerd.; Wohunge of ure lauerd. English.
Description: "The Wooing of Our Lord occupies a seminal position in the history of English literature and the development of English religious devotion. Dating from the second quarter of the thirteenth century, it is one of a group of texts written in English at a time when the language of literature and the court was Anglo-Norman French, and when the language of church and state was Latin. The Wooing of Our Lord is also a highly skilled composition, a work which combines 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."--
Notes: "Þe Wohunge of ure lauerd survives only in BL MS Cotton Titus D.xviii, a manuscript dating from the 1240s. Titus is a small manuscript (157 x 120mm), suitable to be held in the hand for private reading."--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English with Middle English translation on facing pages.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: List of abbreviations; title: Introduction; title: A note on the texts editorial practice; title: Þe wohunge of ure lauerd = The wooing of our Lord; title: On god ureisun of ure lefdi = A good prayer to our Lady; title: On wel swuðe god ureisun of God almihti = A most excellent prayer to God Almighty; title: Þe oreisun of seinte Marie = A prayer to Saint Mary; title: On lofsong of ure louerde / A hymn to our Lord; title: Appendix A: Þe oreisun of seinte marie: the prayer to Saint Mary; title: Appendix B: Bono Oratio: a good prayer; title: Appendix C: Bonum Lectum: a good reading; title: Appendix D: The passion of our Lord, Jesus Christ: a vision of the passion; title: Appendix E: Hypothetical stemma codicae of the Wooing Group; title: Bibliography.