The Pseudo-Bonaventuran Lives of Christ: Exploring the Middle English Tradition

Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction / Ian Johns on and Allan F. Westphall 1
I. History and Ideology
The Name of Jesus, Nicholas Love’s 'Mirror', and Christocentric Devotion in Late Medieval England / Rob Lutton 19
Reversing the Life of Christ: Dissent, Orthodoxy, and Affectivity in Late Medieval England / Mishtooni Bose 55
II. Manuscript Culture: Books and Contexts
'Some sprytuall matter of gostly edyfycacion': Readers and Readings of Nicholas Love’s 'Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ' / Ryan Perry 79
Reading Miscellaneously in and around the English Pseudo‑Bonaventuran Tradition / John J. Thompson 127
Fatherless Books: Authorship, Attribution, and Orthodoxy in Later Medieval England / Vincent Gillespie 151
Organic and Cybernetic Metaphors for Manuscript Relations: Stemma — Cladogram — Rhizome — Cloud / Michael G. Sargent 197
Seeking Salvation: Fifteenth-Century Uses of 'The Rule of the Life of Our Lady' / Amanda Moss 265
III. The Pseudo-Bonaventuran Tradition and its Textual Relations
The 'Liber Aureus and Gospel of Nicodemus': A Middle English Reading of the 'Meditationes vitae Christi' / William Marx 283
The Carthusian Milieu of Nicholas Love’s 'Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ' / David J. Falls 311
'Oon of Foure': Harmonizing Wycliffite and Pseudo‑Bonaventuran Approaches to the Life of Christ / Mary Raschko 341
What Nicholas Love Did in his 'Proheme' with St Augustine and Why / Ian Johnson 375
Ulrich Pinder’s 'Speculum passionis Christi' and John Fewterer’s 'Mirror or Glass of Christ’s Passion': Reflecting and Refracting Tradition / Alexandra da Costa 393
Bonaventure’s 'Lignum vitae': The Evolution of a Text / Catherine Innes-Parker 425
Walter Hilton’s 'The Prickynge of Love' and the Construction of Vernacular 'Sikernesse' / Allan F. Westphall 457
Index 503