TY  - JOUR
AU  - Linda Burke
PY  - 2024
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
JF  - Mediaevistik
IS  - 1
VL  - 36
SN  - 2199-806X
TI  - Steven Rozenski, Wisdom’s Journey: Continental Mysticism and Popular Devotion in England, 1350–1650. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022, 330 pp., 7 b/w ill.
DO  - 10.3726/med.2023.01.103
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1519111
N2  - What type of literary text was most popular with English-language readers in the late Middle Ages and well into the early modern era? To judge from the number of surviving manuscripts and early print editions, the answer is, didactic works, including guidebooks to devotion, the focus of this important new study. Up to now, as explained by Steven Rozenski, this enormous class of works has been relatively neglected in the scholarship and teaching of medieval English literature in favor of genres more congenial to contemporary taste, such as the secular romance (1).
ER  -