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...Lynn Staley Duke University Press 2007 a The Penitential Psalms: Conversion and the Limits of Lordship Lynn Staley...

... devotional texts (like the Book of Psalms), and sometimes in a relation to the emerging category of secular literature. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50:1, January 2020 DOI 10.1215/10829636-7986625 © 2020 by Duke University Press In the hands and hearts of all true Christians : Herbert s...

... churches during episodes of iconoclastic purification. The same pages feature Calvinist Psalms and pious sayings that were once chanted and sung by French Protestants, as well as inscribed and layered in abundance on the walls of their churches and homes. In this mixed verbal-visual form, the medium...

...Jim Knowles In setting the apologia of Piers Plowman in passus 5 of the C-text alongside Martin Luther's 1525 text De servo arbitrio and his earlier lectures on the Psalms, this essay moves across the Reformation divide to argue for continuities between these writers' treatments of the theological...

... paradigm, the Book of Psalms yielded as its general intention “the remaking of men, whose image had become distorted in the person of Adam, in the image of Christ, the new man”; individual psalms had their individual intentions, but they harmonized together beautifully. 10 The “part of philosophy” gives...

... to you this day” (Exod. 14:13), with the next line from Exodus at the base of the woodcut, “The Lord shal fight for you: therefore hold you your peace” (14:14). The vertical tag is from Psalms: “Great are the troubles of the righ- teous, but the Lord delivereth them out of all” (34:19). The exiled...

..., Bradstreet blurs the distinction between human and divine. As we will see, she imagines both in terms of a relational virtue that involves duty as well as affective responses and a vision of unity that does not negate difference. The psalm, “Upon My Dear and Loving Husband,” for example, is addressed...

... ascetism, not “to with- alde necessaries fra þi body.”37 Closest of all perhaps to Julian’s sense, Rolle’s translation of the Psalms of around 1340 includes this verse: “Forsake not god for dred of hungire; he hight til his lufers thaire necessaris” [he gives all that is needful to those who love...

... own rhetorical question precisely as a challenge, Augustine famously tries to “hold the heart of man still” and produce a sense of eternity for his readers by recourse to another linguistic structure: this time, an entire psalm. He points out that, before one recites a psalm, one’s attention...

... to the widow’s mite, the poet begs the countess — renowned for her translation of the Psalms — to protect “these unlearned lines beeing my best,” and hopes that she will condescend to accept the treatment “by my unworthy hand” of Christ’s Passion (“The Author’s Dreame to the Ladie Marie,” 203, 221).21...

... of the Lord endvreth for ever.”21 Two illuminated parchment inserts further mark the manuscript as a royal association copy. The first of these awards the title “the lyvely Worde of the lyveynge god, the Sworde of the spirite” (fol. 4r) and supplies verse quotation from Psalm 82 drawn from...

..., Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012), 373. The Vulgate, with its pairing of heart and kidneys, reads: “Ego Dominus scrutans cor et probans renes qui do uniquique iuxta viam suam et iuxta fructrum adinventionum suarum” (Kinney, ed., 372). For similar passages, see Hebrews 4:12–13 and Psalm 44:20–21...

... God]. (146 n. 6, my trans.). His first comment on revelations, his reference to Psalm 76, and his final note all indicate that the sixteenth-century reader saw this as a chapter about the importance of belief in God's miracles, specifically Kempe's visions. The specific phrase that the rubricator...

... and forcefulness. While psalm translation sometimes produced pleas for mercy that go on at greater length, Herbert’s emphasis is different.58 The penitential psalms, for example, confess sin, accept the justice of punish- ment, and pray for an undeserved release. Herbert’s...

..., perhaps in commercial production.28 Over fifteen percent of Wycliffite Bible manu- scripts contain parts of the Old Testament but no New Testament scrip- ture.29 Not surprisingly, the most prominent scriptural book within this group is Psalms. Dove lists twenty manuscripts with the whole Psalter...

... pleas your Majestie the booke of psalmes wreaten by my wyfe in french and in divers sortis of Caractaris adornit everie way so far as wes possible to ane simple woman, being presentit to your Majestie togidder with ane letter of my soverane lords the kings Majestie of Scotland in my recommendatioun...

... of rabbinic exegesis in the interpretation of the messianic psalms in comparison to late medieval interpreters and Martin Luther, see G. Sujin Pak, The Judaizing Calvin: Sixteenth-Century Debate over the Messianic Psalms (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 101. 26 London, Lambeth Palace Library...

..., especially the Psalms and Gospels, were essential elements of the Office and Mass, respectively. These ritualized readings of Holy Writ were framed by various kinds of liturgical song, the text of which was typically quoted from biblical sources, crafted in such a way to comment on the significance...

... entire and unbroken.”47 The Book of Common Prayer’s investment in linear reading first appears in the for the ordre of the Psalmes, to be saied at Mattins and Euensong” (sig. ❧3v). This table arranges the Psalms so that over the course of the month the celebrant reads straight through the entire book...

... it in his commentary on Psalm 100:1: “Now is still the time for mercy; the future will be the time for judgment” [Misericordiam et iudicium cantabo tibi, Domine (Vulgate3 Similarly, in his commentary on Vulgate Psalm 24:10 he speaks of the two comings of the Son of God, one in mercy, the other...