{"product_id":"a-mirror-to-devout-people-speculum-devotorum-9780198744979","title":"A Mirror to Devout People (Speculum Devotorum)","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paul J. Patterson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Early English Text Society\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Early English Text Society\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Medieval\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition of \u003cem\u003eA Mirror to Devout People\u003c\/em\u003e presents for the first time a Middle English Life of Christ, with additional religious advice, written in the early fifteenth century by a Carthusian monk at the Sheen Charterhouse for a sister at the nearby Bridgettine Syon Abbey. Both the Sheen Charterhouse and Syon were recent royal foundations, established by Henry V. The \u003cem\u003eMirror\u003c\/em\u003e is an important example of the devotional works produced to satisfy demand among laity as well as professed religious, wanting to read lives of Christ in the years following the repressive legislation of Archbishop Arundel (1409), which placed severe restrictions on biblical translation into English, intended to limit the spread of heresy. The \u003cem\u003eMirror\u003c\/em\u003e, written in the tradition of the highly successful translation by another Carthusian, Nicholas Love, of Pseudo-Bonaventure's life of Christ, testifies to the demand for such material in pious households.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Early English Text Society","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46861093929111,"sku":"9780198744979","price":9273.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198744979.webp?v=1769960653","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-mirror-to-devout-people-speculum-devotorum-9780198744979","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}