Antje Elisa Chan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3892092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antje Elisa Chan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antje Elisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Chan |
| SIGNATURE | CHAN A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6324-2520 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Mystical Presence of Christ
The Mystical Prescence of Christ is a long-awaited monograph on the Christocentric nature of piety in the late Middle Ages, which looks at an underexplored theme in the scholarly field: the presence of Christ in the devotional lives of both ordinary and extraordinary individuals. Richard Kieckhefer traces the phenomenon of Christ’s mystical presence—his manifest presence—in literature of revelation (hagiographies, devotional texts, and autobiogra…
Kissing Matter
This article examines the use of contemplation in the religious poetry of John Lydgate, a fifteenth-century Benedictine monk and poet from England. While our understanding of Lydgate as a Benedictine poet has gained scholarly momentum, his paraliturgical writings have received less sustained attention. In this article, I argue that Lydgate democratizes the millennium-old monastic practice of lectio and meditatio by introducing a new contemplative…
The Virtues of the Mass
The Virtues of the Mass is a literary corpus comprising around forty-four known Middle English texts. These writings expound the liturgical sequences of the Mass and/or its spiritual and physical benefits for both clerical and lay audiences, whether literate or illiterate. This article traces 107 manuscripts containing variants of the Virtues of the Mass (as examined in the appendix) to contend that this corpus of texts should be viewed as a comp…
Chaucer's Prayers
Megan Murton offers her readers the illuminating opportunity to dwell imaginatively within the highly performative nature of Chaucer's prayers. For Murton, who anchors Chaucer's Prayers in the new critical approach to first-person voice in late medieval writing, the “I” of prayers is both a space to be inhabited in devotional posture or else as vantage-points onto, or into, a story. Therefore, to perform Chaucer's prayers, whether pagan or Christ…
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Chaucer's Prayers
Megan Murton offers her readers the illuminating opportunity to dwell imaginatively within the highly performative nature of Chaucer's prayers. For Murton, who anchors Chaucer's Prayers in the new critical approach to first-person voice in late medieval writing, the “I” of prayers is both a space to be inhabited in devotional posture or else as vantage-points onto, or into, a story. Therefore, to perform Chaucer's prayers, whether pagan or Christ…
The Virtues of the Mass
The Virtues of the Mass is a literary corpus comprising around forty-four known Middle English texts. These writings expound the liturgical sequences of the Mass and/or its spiritual and physical benefits for both clerical and lay audiences, whether literate or illiterate. This article traces 107 manuscripts containing variants of the Virtues of the Mass (as examined in the appendix) to contend that this corpus of texts should be viewed as a comp…
The Mystical Presence of Christ
The Mystical Prescence of Christ is a long-awaited monograph on the Christocentric nature of piety in the late Middle Ages, which looks at an underexplored theme in the scholarly field: the presence of Christ in the devotional lives of both ordinary and extraordinary individuals. Richard Kieckhefer traces the phenomenon of Christ’s mystical presence—his manifest presence—in literature of revelation (hagiographies, devotional texts, and autobiogra…
Kissing Matter
This article examines the use of contemplation in the religious poetry of John Lydgate, a fifteenth-century Benedictine monk and poet from England. While our understanding of Lydgate as a Benedictine poet has gained scholarly momentum, his paraliturgical writings have received less sustained attention. In this article, I argue that Lydgate democratizes the millennium-old monastic practice of lectio and meditatio by introducing a new contemplative…
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Medieval Literature and History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Performative utterance (2 works) · Poetry (2 works)