{"product_id":"the-wooing-of-our-lord-and-the-wooing-group-prayers","title":"The Wooing of Our Lord and The Wooing Group Prayers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Wooing of Our Lord\u003c\/em\u003e and the Wooing Group prayers occupy a key position in the history of English literature and the development of English religious devotion. Dating from the second quarter of the thirteenth century, they are among a group of texts written in English at a time when the language of literature and the court was Anglo-Norman French, and the language of church and state was Latin. The text for which this group is named, \u003cem\u003eThe Wooing of Our Lord\u003c\/em\u003e is also a highly skilled composition, combining beautiful and poetic expression with a profound affective theology. Its first-person female narrator speaks directly to Christ, becoming the voice of the reader whom the text guides through a passionate meditation upon the magnitude of Christ’s love, his sufferings in his Passion, and the response of the individual soul.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nCatherine Innes-Parker’s graceful new translation is paired with the original Middle English dialect in a facing-page format.\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66233537560925,"sku":null,"price":30.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9781551113821.jpg?v=1792205590","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/the-wooing-of-our-lord-and-the-wooing-group-prayers","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}