Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: new light from Fife
The largest single manuscript collection of the spiritual poetry of Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross (fl. 1599-1631) is anonymous and undated. Its contents give every sign of being carefully ordered, and open with a sonnet incorporating the name Issobell Cor as the anagram SOB SILLE COR, followed by...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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University Press
[2017]
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The Innes review
Год: 2017, Том: 68, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 38-77 |
| Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности): | B
Melville, Elizabeth, Lady 1598-1640
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| Индексация IxTheo: | CD Христианство и культура KAG Реформация KBF Британские острова KDD Евангелическая церковь |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Women
B Fife B Elizabeth Melville B Lewis B Religious communities B Isobell Cor B Robert Lumsden B East Neuk B Poetry B Presbyterianism B Reformation Scotland |
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| Итог: | The largest single manuscript collection of the spiritual poetry of Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross (fl. 1599-1631) is anonymous and undated. Its contents give every sign of being carefully ordered, and open with a sonnet incorporating the name Issobell Cor as the anagram SOB SILLE COR, followed by a dixain on the acrostic ISABELL COR. This article overturns earlier interpretations of these technical devices by identifying the addressee of the poems as the hitherto unnoticed Isobell Cor, wife of Robert Lumsden, laird of Airdrie in the East Neuk of Fife. Isobell Cor's background and her personal circumstances in the period 1605-1609 provide a raison d'être for the existence of the anonymous verse collection and further reinforce the existing case for Elizabeth Melville's authorship of the 3000 lines concerned. Significant new light is also thrown on the poet's early adult years, on the richness of the spirituality practised by the Melvillian' presbyterians of the East Neuk of Fife and on the struggles in... |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5219 |
| Reference: | Errata "Corrigenda (2017)"
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| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: The Innes review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3366/inr.2017.0129 |