Miserere Mei

Clare Costley King'Oo

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In Miserere Mei, Clare Costley King'oo examines the critical importance of the Penitential Psalms in England between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. During this period, the Penitential Psalms inspired an enormous amount of creative and intellectual work: in addition to being copied and illustrated in Books of Hours and other prayer books, they were expounded in commentaries, imitated in vernacular translations and paraphrases, rendered into lyric poetry, and even modified for singing. Miserere Mei explores these numerous transformations in materiality and genre. Combining the resources of close literary analysis with those of the history of the book, it reveals not only that the Penitential Psalms lay at the heart of Reformation-age debates over the nature of repentance, but also, and more significantly, that they constituted a site of theological, political, artistic, and poetic engagement across the many polarities that are often said to separate late medieval from early modern culture.

Miserere Mei features twenty-five illustrations and provides new analyses of works based on the Penitential Psalms by several key writers of the time, including Richard Maidstone, Thomas Brampton, John Fisher, Martin Luther, Sir Thomas Wyatt, George Gascoigne, Sir John Harington, and Richard Verstegan. It will be of value to anyone interested in the interpretation, adaptation, and appropriation of biblical literature; the development of religious plurality in the West; the emergence of modernity; and the periodization of Western culture. Students and scholars in the fields of literature, religion, history, art history, and the history of material texts will find Miserere Mei particularly instructive and compelling.

Sujets

• Biblical Studies
• Literary Criticism
• Medieval
• Inglaterra
• Edad Media
• Penitential Psalms
• Book of hours
• General officer
• Old Testament
• Middle Ages
• General
• History
• England
• ART

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 31 mai 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780268084615
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN
Series Editors:
David Aers, Sarah Beckwith, and James Simpson
MISERERE MEI
The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
Clare Costley King’oo
University of Notre Dame Press
Notre Dame, Indiana
Copyright © 2012 by University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
www.undpress.nd.edu
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Contents
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Other Conventions
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Seven Penitential Psalms
On the Origins of a Genre
Penitential Hermeneutics
Doing Penance and Praying for the Dead
Overview of Miserere Mei
ONE Illustrating the Penitential Psalms
King David, Sinner/Psalmwriter
Sexualizing Sin
Adultery, Catechesis, and Pedagogy
TWO The Conflict over Penance
Reading Suffering in the Penitential Psalms
John Fisher and the Economics of Penance
Martin Luther’s Metanoia
THREE Plotting Reform
Sir Thomas Wyatt among the Evangelicals
Richard Maidstone, Thomas Brampton, and John Croke: The Penitential Psalms as Common Property
Wyatt’s Paraphrase, David’s Conversion(s)
FOUR From Penance to Politics
Repentance, Paranoia, and Consent in Elizabeth’s Prayer Book
John Stubbs, Theodore Beza, and the Importation of Genevan Exclusivity
FIVE Parody and Piety
Move Over, David, or , George Gascoigne’s De Profundis
Sir John Harington’s Antipenitential Hermeneutics
Reappropriation in the Odes of Richard Verstegan
Afterword: A Brief Reflection on Discipline and Method
Appendix: John Harington of Stepney and Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Penitential Psalms
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Figures
Fig. 1.1. Psalm 1. The psalter or boke of psalmes both in Latyn and Englyshe. [Trans. Miles Coverdale.] London: R. Grafton, 1540. STC 2368. Sigs. a1v to a2r. © The British Library Board. Shelfmark C.111.aa.30.
Fig. 1.2. The Penitential Psalms. The primer in English and Latin, after Salisburie vse . London: R. Caly, 1556. STC 16073. Sig. M6r. © The British Library Board. Shelfmark C.35.b.21.(1.).
Fig. 1.3. Illustration for 2 Samuel 11. The byble in Englyshe . [Paris: F. Regnault]; London: R. Grafton and E. Whitchurch, 1539. STC 2068. [Great Bible] Part 2, fol. 40v. © The British Library Board. Shelfmark G.12215.
Fig. 1.4. The Penitential Psalms. Horae, Dominican Use. Italy (Siena), ca. 1470. Used by permission of the Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia. MS Lewis E 118, fol. 132v.
Fig. 1.5. The Penitential Psalms. Horae, Use of Dol and Rennes. France (Paris), ca. 1405. Used by permission of the Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia. MS Widener 4, fol. 76r.
Fig. 1.6. The Penitential Psalms. Hore presentes ad vsum Sarum . Paris: P. Pigouchet for S. Vostre, 1498. STC 15887. Sig. k4r. © The British Library Board. Shelfmark IA.40335.
Fig. 1.7. Leaf from Horae . France (Rouen), [early?] sixteenth century. Used by permission of the Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia. MS Lewis M11.10a.
Fig. 1.8. The Penitential Psalms. Horae, Use of Paris. France (Paris), early sixteenth century. Used by permission of the Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia. MS Lewis E 97, fol. 68r.
Fig. 1.9. The Penitential Psalms. Orarium seu libellus precationum per regiam maiestatem & clerum latinè aeditus. London: R. Grafton, 1546. STC 16042. Sig. E2v. © The British Library Board. Shelfmark C.35.b.18.
Fig. 1.10. The Penitential Psalms. This prymer of Salysbury vse. Paris: T. Kerver for J. Growte [in London], 1532. STC 15978. Fol. 126v. © The British Library Board. Shelfmark C.35.a.14.
Fig. 1.11. The Penitential Psalms. Hore beatissime virginis Marie ad vsum Sarisburiensis ecclesie. Paris: T. Kerver for W. Bretton [in London], 1510. STC 15909. Sig. q1r. © The British Library Board. Shelfmark C.25.k.4.
Fig. 1.12. First sermon. John Fisher, This treatise concernynge the fruytfull saynges of Dauyd in the seuen penytencyall psalmes. London: W. de Worde, 1508. STC 10902. Sig. aa2r. © The British Library Board. Shelfmark G.12026.
Fig. 1.13. 2 Samuel 11. Biblia the bible . [Cologne?: E. Cervicornus and J. Soter?], 1535. STC 2063. [Coverdale Bible] Sig. hh2r. By permission of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. Shelfmark Fol. BS145 1535.
Fig. 1.14. Commandment against adultery. A necessary doctrine and erudition for any christen man. London: J. Mayler, 1543. STC 5175. [The King’s Book] Sig. N3r. © The British Library Board. Shelfmark C.21.a.13.
Fig. 1.15. The alphabet. The New England Primer . Worcester, MA: S. A. Howland (publisher); J. M. Shumway (printer and binder), ca. 1849. Page 13. Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society. Shelfmark N532 H864 1849.
Fig. 1.16. Detail from fig. 1.15 .
Fig. 3.1. Title page. Certayne psalmes chosen out of the psalter of Dauid. London: T. Raynald and [i.e., for] J. Harington (“Harryngton” in the imprint), 1549. STC 2726. Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. Shelfmark Syn.8.54.156.
Fig. 3.2. From the dedication to Lord William Parr. Certayne psalmes chosen out of the psalter of Dauid. London: T. Raynald and [i.e., for] J. Harington (“Harryngton” in the imprint), 1549. STC 2726. Sig. A1v. Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. Shelfmark Syn.8.54.156.
Fig. 3.3. The Penitential Psalms. This prymer in Englyshe and in Laten. London: [R. Redman, 1537]. STC 15997. Sig. P2v. By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Shelfmark STC 15997.
Fig. 3.4. Prologue to the second Penitential Psalm. Certayne psalmes chosen out of the psalter of Dauid. London: T. Raynald and [i.e., for] J. Harington (“Harryngton” in the imprint), 1549. STC 2726. Sig. B3r. Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. Shelfmark Syn.8.54.156.
Fig. 4.1. Frontispiece with engraving of “Elizabeth Regina.” Christian prayers and meditations. London: J. Day, 1569. STC 6428. By permission of the Trustees of Lambeth Palace Library. Shelfmark (ZZ) 1569.6.
Fig. 4.2. Illustration for Psalm 1 depicting David in prayer. Gallican Psalter with Calendar, Canticles, Litany, and Collects. Flanders (Bruges), ca. 1470. Used by permission of the Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia. MS Lewis E 182, fol. 7r.
Fig. 4.3. “A meditation vpon the 102 Psalme.” Theodore Beza, Christian meditations vpon eight psalmes of the prophet Dauid. [Trans. John Stubbs.] London: C. Barker, 1582. STC 2004. Sigs. F2v-F3r. © The British Library Board. Shelfmark 3090.aaaa.7.
Fig. 5.1. Title page with emblem of winged heart (and monogram IHS). Richard Verstegan, Odes. In imitation of the seaven penitential psalmes, with sundry other poemes. [Antwerp: A. Conincx], 1601. STC 21359. © The British Library Board. Shelfmark C.38.b.29.
Fig. 5.2. First two stanzas of Psalm 51, with melody. William Hunnis, Seuen sobs of a sorrowfull soule for sinne. London: H. Denham, 1583. STC 13975. Page 35. © The British Library Board. Shelfmark C.37.a.7.
Abbreviations CCSL Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina EETS Early English Text Society e.s. extra series o.s. original series EW The English Works of John Fisher , Part I, ed. John E. B. Mayor LW Luther’s Works: The American Edition, ed. Jaroslav Pelikan and Helmut T. Lehmann MT Masoretic Text ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online, 2004–11 OED Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., online, 1989–2011 PL Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina STC A Short-Title Catalogue , 2nd ed., print, 1976–91 WA Weimarer Ausgabe, D. Martin Luthers Werke , ser. 1, Schriften WA.Br Weimarer Ausgabe, D. Martin Luthers Werke , Ser. 4, Briefwechsel WA.DB Weimarer Ausgabe, D. Martin Luthers Werke , Ser. 3, Die Deutsche Bibel
Other Conventions
Textual Note
For early works, I have silently expanded abbreviations and contractions. I have also removed double capitalization occurring at the beginning of sentences and updated obsolete characters (such as thorn and yogh, the long s, and ligatures). In general, however, I have kept modernization light.
Translations for Non-English Sources
Wherever possible, I give English translations for non-English sources (Augustine, Cassiodorus, Luther, and so on) from the standard versions. These translations are referenced in my notes. The remaining English renderings are mine.
Quotations and Translations from the Vulgate Bible
All quotations from the Vulgate Bible are taken from Biblia sacra iuxta vulgatam versionem , edited by Bonifatius Fischer et al., and revised by Robert Weber. It should be noted that the Fischer/Weber edition includes two different Psalters translated by Jerome: the Psalterium Gallicanum and the Psalterium iuxta Hebraicum . I use the Psalterium Gallicanum , Jerome’s Latin version of the Septuagint Psalter, which circulated more widely than the Psalterium iuxta Hebraicum in the late Middle Ages. English translations of all Latin Vulgate Bible texts are from the Douay-Rheims Bible. I use the 1941 edition published by the Douay Bible House in New York, with the title The Holy Bible . Where necessary, I have amended this text from British to American spelling.
Psalm Numbers
There are two different systems for subdividing and numbering the psal