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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> I HAVE WRITTEN this essay in response to what I have felt was a need to clarify how the theological concept of the Devil’s rights was used in medieval literature produced in England. It has a place in formulations of the redemption and so needs to be seen in the light of the history of doctrine. Discussions of the Devil’s rights in literary contexts have been fragmentary and have appeared mainly in connection with the English mystery plays the Chasteau d’Amour of Robert Grosseteste and the harrowing of hell episode in Piers Plowman. There has been a tendency to regard the use of the idea in literature as something of an anachronism an inheritance from patristic writing which in the mainstream of theology had been displaced by later developments. The main sources for this assumption are R. W. Southern’s highly influential book The Making of the Middle Ages published in 1953 and an article by Timothy Fry published in 1951 ‘The Unity of the Ludus Coventriae’. In order to explain the emergence of the emphasis on the humanity of Christ and the growth of affective piety in medieval devotion Southern drew a distinction between formula- tions of the redemption before and after Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo which is generally recognized as the first work devoted solely to the doctrine of the redemption. Before Anselm he argued