Campion, Louise.

Cushions, Kitchens and Christ : Mapping the Domestic in Late Medieval Religious Writing. - Cardiff : University of Wales Press, (c)2022. - 1 online resource (200 pages). - Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Manuscript Sigla -- Prefatory Notes -- Introduction -- 1: The Kitchen of the Heart, Spiritual Furniture and Noble Visitors: Mapping the Domestic in The Doctrine of the Hert -- 2: The Domesticity of the Sacred Heart in Mechthild of Hackeborn's Booke of Gostlye Grace -- 3: Marriage, Storehouses and Celestial Visitors: Domestic Frameworks in Bridget of Sweden's Liber Celestis 4: From Wanderer to Householder: The Domestication of Jesus, the Disciples and the Holy Family in Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover

This book is the first full-length study of the significant patterns of domestic imagery in late medieval religious writing in English and their broader cultural significance.



9781786838315 9781786838322


Religious literature, English--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500
Home economics in literature.


Electronic Books.

PR275 / .C874 2022