The Boke of Gostely Grace - 9781800856332

The Boke of Gostely GraceThe Middle English Translation: A Critical Edition from Oxford, MS Bodley 220\nAuthor(s): Nao Kukita Yoshikawa, Anne Mouron, Mark Atherton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781800856332, 978-1800856332\nSynopsis\nThe Boke of Gostely Grace is the anonymous Middle English version of the Liber specialis gratiae by the German visionary Mechthild of Hackeborn [tel]. The original Liber, compiled at the convent of Helfta in Saxony, presents Mechthilds visions as she experienced them in the liturgy of the Christian year. Her famous visions of the Sacred Heart follow, along with instructions on the religious life in community and her visions of the afterlife. The Middle English version adapts the text to a new fifteenth-century audience, probably a Birgittine community such as the newly founded Syon Abbey on the Thames near London; it emphasises imagery of the dance of the liturgy, .