LEADER 02384nam a22005291i 4500001 99116161493506421 005 20201105144856.1 006 m o d | 007 cr |n||||||||| 008 201105s2016 inua ob 001 0 eng d 019 9462170899467860149633532619719521719721001761006795856 020 9780268087050 (electronic bk.) 020 0268087059 (electronic bk.) 020 |z9780268035402 020 |z0268035407 035 (NhCcYBP)ebd626762806 035 |z(NjP)Voyager11616149 037 22573/ctvpgkchn |bJSTOR 040 NhCcYBP |cNhCcYBP 050 4 PR275.B5 |bM33 2016 082 04 820.9/3823 |223 090 Electronic Resource 099 Electronic Resource 100 1 McDermott, Ryan, |d1978- |eauthor. 245 10 Tropologies : |bethics and invention in England, c. 1350-1600 / |cRyan McDermott. 246 30 Ethics and invention in England, c. 1350-1600 264 1 Notre Dame, Indiana : |bUniversity of Notre Dame Press, |c[2016] 300 1 online resource (xiii, 431 pages) : |billustrations. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 computer |bc |2rdamedia 338 online resource |bcr |2rdacarrier 490 1 ReFormations : medieval and early modern 520 "Tropologies is the first book-length study to elaborate the medieval and early modern theory of the tropological, or moral, sense of scripture. Ryan McDermott argues that tropology is not only a way to interpret the Bible but also a theory of literary and ethical invention. The "tropological imperative" demands that words be turned into works--books as well as deeds. Beginning with Augustine, Jerome, and Gregory the Great, then treating monuments of exegesis such as the Glossa ordinaria and Nicholas of Lyra, as well as theorists including Thomas Aquinas, Erasmus, Martin Luther, and others, Tropologies reveals the unwritten history of a major hermeneutical theory and inventive practice. Late medieval and early Reformation writers adapted tropological theory to invent new biblical poetry and drama that would invite readers to participate in salvation history by inventing their own new works. Tropologies reinterprets a wide range of medieval and early modern texts and performances--including the Patience-Poet, Piers Plowman, Chaucer, the York and Coventry cycle plays, and the literary circles of the reformist King Edward VI--to argue that "tropological invention" provided a robust alternative to rhetorical theories of literary production. In this groundbreaking revision of literary history, the Bible and biblical hermeneutics, commonly understood as sources of tumultuous discord, turn out to provide principles of continuity and mutuality across the Reformation's temporal and confessional rifts. Each chapter pursues an argument about poetic and dramatic form, linking questions of style and aesthetics to exegetical theory and theology. Because Tropologies attends to the flux of exegetical theory and practice across a watershed period of intellectual history, it is able to register subtle shifts in literary production, fine-tuning our sense of how literature and religion mutually and dynamically informed and reformed each other. "This is an original book. It draws confidently on a wide range of medieval critical and scholarly work, as well as on a cogent body of contemporary theory and theology. It not only moves easily and eloquently between the fourteenth and the sixteenth centuries but also delves back into the 'tropological' Christian thought of the previous thousand years."--Nicolette Zeeman, University of Cambridge"-- |cProvided by publisher. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-419) and index. 533 Electronic reproduction. |bNew York |nAvailable via World Wide Web. 588 Description based on print version record. 648 7 1100-1700 |2fast 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 630 00 Bible |xCriticism, interpretation, etc. |xHistory. 630 00 Bible |xInfluence. 630 00 Bible |xIn literature. 650 0 English literature |yMiddle English, 1100-1500 |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 English literature |yEarly modern, 1500-1700 |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 Bible and literature. 650 0 Ethics in literature. 650 0 Religion and literature. 776 08 |cOriginal |z9780268035402 |z0268035407 |w(DLC) 2016004189 830 0 Reformations 910 JSTOR DDA 956 40 |uhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvpj74mk 980 12938877