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The main focus of this paper is an especially widely read and disseminated meditation on Christ’s life, Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ.
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Source Readings on the Practice and Spirituality of Chant: New Texts, New Approaches
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Delicious Matyr: Feminine Courtesy in Middle English Devotional Literature for Women
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Pagans and Christians at the frontier: Viking burial in the Danelaw
The rapid conversion of Scandinavian settlers, so we are led to believe, demonstrates the weakness of their own pagan religions in the face of an all-embracing Christianity, and provides another example of their eagerness to become assimilated.