Allan Westphall
Some Notes on The Recusant Stimulus Amoris (The Goad of Divine Love, Douai 1642)
The first printed English translation of the pseudo-Bonaventuran Stimulus Amoris is the Recusant translation produced in Douai in Northern France/Flanders in 1642…
On the Place of the Mirror to Devout People (Speculum Devotorum) in the Middle English Pseudo-Bonaventuran Tradition
The Mirror to Devout People (Mirror) is a long, comprehensive meditative life of Christ in 33 chapters (one for each year in Christ’s life). A substantial prologue carefully establishes a paratext showing the Mirror to be a request work written by a Carthusian author for a nun of Syon. The text is thus a product of …
Reviews: Books Under Suspicion…
In Kathryn Kerby-Fulton’s study of theological controversy and revelatory writing in Ricardian and early Lancastrian England, Books under Suspicion, the five-page list of the volume’s content itself makes for challenging reading, confronting us with a gallery of terms and names commonly and conventionally not employed in discussions of English religious writing of the period…
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