The bulk of extant Middle English literature is made up of a wide variety of religious works.
This chapter will deal with three prominent categories: hagiography, or the narrative …

… By inventing a name for this literature, pastoralia, and by mapping out its contours, he gave
… Boyle’s footsteps as he invented the genre of pastoralia and opened the way to a rigorous …

This essay reads the dystopic and spectacularized theme park cave-world of George
Saunders’s story “Pastoralia” (2000) as a human zoo. Building on the theoretical ground laid by …

… THE purpose of this book is to give a comprehensive survey of the many subjects that
comprise Pastoralia. There are, indeed, so many that only an introduction can be given to each …

By any standards of measurement, the last quarter-century has seen academic interest in
medieval sermons flourish. Building on the seminal work of scholars of an earlier generation, …

In The Voices of Morebath the ordinary Tudor clergy at last find their hero. Christopher
Trychay, that Devonshire parish’s long-serving vicar, provides an eyewitness response to the …

If we may try to summarize these thoughts in the simplest terms we might say: God has made
man a being capable of immortal fellowship with Himself; man attains to this fellowship …

SIMICHIDAS, a townsman, travels with friends to a harvest festival on the island of Kos. On
the way he meets a goatherd, Lykidas, whom he challenges to an exchange of pastoral song. …

PABTORALIA PASTORAL theology for modern times, like. the Catholic Faith, does not
necessarily involve the scrapping of all that the experience and reflection of past generations …