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Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain / Eva von Contzen and Anke Bernau.

Contributor(s): Series: Manchester medieval literature and culturePublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526104243
  • 1526104245
  • 0719098173
  • 9780719098178
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 820.93820902 23
LOC classification:
  • PR255 .S26 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: sanctity as literature: Eva von Contzen; 1. St Margaret and the literary politics of Scottish sainthood, Kate Ash; 2. Good knights and holy men: reading the virtue of soldier-saints in medieval literary genres, Andrew Lynch; 3. Englishing the saints in Robert Mannyng's, Kate Greenspan; 4. Modelling holiness: self-fashioning and sanctity in late medieval English mystical literature, Jessica Barr
5. Body and soul: from doctrine to debate in medieval Welsh and Irish literature, Helen Fulton6. Chaucer and hagiographic authority, Jennifer L. Sisk; 7. Reading classical authors in Capgrave's, Sarah James; 8. Lydgate's saintly poetics, Anke Bernau; 9. Narrating vernacular sanctity: the Scottish Legendary as a challenge to the 'literary turn' in fifteenth-century hagiography; 10. Reforming sanctity: the Digby Mary Magdalen and Lewis Wager's Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene, Tamara Atkin; 11. The humanist grammar of sanctity in the early Lives of Thomas More, Anna Siebach Larsen
12. Afterword: calendar time in balade form, Catherine SanokBibliography; Index
This title explores how sanctity and questions of literariness are intertwined across a range of medieval genres.
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Previously issued in print: 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This title explores how sanctity and questions of literariness are intertwined across a range of medieval genres.

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Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: sanctity as literature: Eva von Contzen; 1. St Margaret and the literary politics of Scottish sainthood, Kate Ash; 2. Good knights and holy men: reading the virtue of soldier-saints in medieval literary genres, Andrew Lynch; 3. Englishing the saints in Robert Mannyng's, Kate Greenspan; 4. Modelling holiness: self-fashioning and sanctity in late medieval English mystical literature, Jessica Barr

5. Body and soul: from doctrine to debate in medieval Welsh and Irish literature, Helen Fulton6. Chaucer and hagiographic authority, Jennifer L. Sisk; 7. Reading classical authors in Capgrave's, Sarah James; 8. Lydgate's saintly poetics, Anke Bernau; 9. Narrating vernacular sanctity: the Scottish Legendary as a challenge to the 'literary turn' in fifteenth-century hagiography; 10. Reforming sanctity: the Digby Mary Magdalen and Lewis Wager's Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene, Tamara Atkin; 11. The humanist grammar of sanctity in the early Lives of Thomas More, Anna Siebach Larsen

12. Afterword: calendar time in balade form, Catherine SanokBibliography; Index

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