The Doctrine of the Hert

The Doctrine of the Hert by Christiania Whitehead

A critical edition of The Doctrine of the Hert, the fifteenth-century English translation of De doctrina cordis, a thirteenth-century Latin devotional treatise addressed to nuns.

These two complementary volumes together fill a major gap in the ever-burgeoning fields of late medieval devotional literature and of medieval women’s spiritualityStudents of medieval devotional literature and of medieval women’s spirituality will want to own the Companion as well as the edition of The Doctrine of the Hert.
Robert Sturges, Medieval Feminist Forum, 48.1 * Medieval Feminist Forum, 48.1, *

Christiania Whitehead is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at the University of Warwick. Her fields of interest lie in medieval allegory and female spirituality. Denis Renevey is Chair of Medieval English Literature and Language at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He has published widely in the field of vernacular theology and female religious writings. Anne Mouron is a fellow in English at Greyfriars, University of Oxford. She writes on late medieval devotional literature.

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ISBN 13	9780859897785
ISBN 10	0859897788
Title	The Doctrine of the Hert
Author	Christiania Whitehead
Series	Exeter Medieval Texts And Studies
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Liverpool University Press
Year published	2010-05-17
Number of pages	320
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