{"product_id":"a-companion-to-the-boke-nao-kukita-yoshikawa-9781837645176","title":"A Companion to the Boke of Gostely Grace: The Middle English Translation and Its European Vernacular Contexts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Boke of Gostely Grace\u003c\/em\u003e is a Middle English translation of the \u003cem\u003eLiber specialis gratiae\u003c\/em\u003e by the German visionary Mechthild of Hackeborn (1241-1298), a Benedictine\/Cistercian nun at the convent of Helfta. This new Companion will add momentum to the current interdisciplinary and theoretical debate surrounding Latin texts and their translations into the vernacular, including a number of issues regarding women's literary culture. It complements and supplements the new critical edition of the text, \u003cem\u003eThe Boke of Gostely Grace\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa and Anne Mouron with Mark Atherton, published by Liverpool University Press in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA comprehensive introduction is followed by three parts. Part 1 examines vernacular translations of the \u003cem\u003eLiber specialis gratiae\u003c\/em\u003e from the late medieval and early modern periods in German, Dutch, Swedish, Italian and French. Part 2 explores a wide-range of critical issues in \u003cem\u003eThe Boke of Gostely Grace\u003c\/em\u003e, and in particular aspects of the spirituality of Helfta. The volume concludes in Part 3 with aspects of the Last Things at Helfta, more specifically purgatorial piety and the theme of the dying and the dead. The volume as a whole provides a new and nuanced understanding of how the mystical literary output of Helfta circulated and was received in the late medieval literary culture of England and Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1837645175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781837645176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45180680438015,"sku":"9781837645176","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_92c2ef95-9fd5-4b62-8110-0544d65d886d.jpg?v=1712898412","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-companion-to-the-boke-nao-kukita-yoshikawa-9781837645176","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}