Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain / 
Eva von Contzen and Anke Bernau. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - Manchester medieval literature and culture .
 - Manchester medieval literature and culture. .
<br/><br/> Previously issued in print: 2015. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/> This title explores how sanctity and questions of literariness are intertwined across a range of medieval genres. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781526104243 1526104245 0719098173 9780719098178 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>22573/ctt1mfmmv5  JSTOR 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1100-1500 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English literature--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500<br/>Religion in literature.<br/>Saints in literature.<br/>English literature--Middle English.<br/>Religion in literature.<br/>Saints in literature.<br/>LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR255  / .S26 2016eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>820.93820902