The Liber Celestis of St Bridget of Sweden
The Middle English version in British Library MS Claudius BI, together with a life of the saint from the same Manuscript. Volume I - Text
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series; 291;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 June 1988
- ISBN 9780197222935
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages516 pages
- Size 217x143x39 mm
- Weight 746 g
- Language English
- Illustrations frontisiece 0
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St Bridget of Sweden (1303-73) began to experience supernatural revelations as a lady-in-waiting at the Swedish court in 1335. After her husband's death she left the court and founded a monastery for nuns and monks which became the basis of the Brigettine Order. Her visions continued after she left Sweden for Italy in 1349, and she spent the rest of her life in pilgrimage and religious activities. The visions, some of the Passion and others concerned with political and religious events of her day, were recorded in Latin by her spiritual directors, as the Liber Celestis.
The mystical equivalent of a medieval manual for preachers, the work points us to what was best and worst in late medieval spirituality. It was several times translated into Middle English but the only translation hitherto available has been the partial and truncated version published in 1929. The present work is a critical edition of one of the two complete Middle English translations of the Liber, contained in British Library MS Claudius BI. This first volume consists of the text and a brief introduction to the Liber. The second volume will include a study of the manuscript and the translation; a full commentary, explanatory notes, bibliography, and glossary.
