Contzen, Eva voneditor.Bernau, Ankeeditor.textbibliographyCriticism, interpretation, etc.Electronic books.enk2016monographiceng1 online resource.This title explores how sanctity and questions of literariness are intertwined across a range of medieval genres.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 Barr5. 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 Larsen12. Afterword: calendar time in balade form, Catherine SanokBibliography; IndexspecializedEva von Contzen and Anke Bernau.Previously issued in print: 2015.Includes bibliographical references and index.English literatureMiddle English, 1100-1500History and criticismReligion in literatureSaints in literatureEnglish literatureMiddle EnglishReligion in literatureSaints in literatureLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh 1100-1500 fast PR255 .S26 2016eb820.93820902(DLC) 2015296672(OCoLC)894938055978152610424315261042450719098173978071909817822573/ctt1mfmmv5 JSTORhttp://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1452574http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1452574QCL14121120200709060529.0ocn952979176eng