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Author | : John Scahill |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781843840596 |
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Annotated bibliography covering two centuries of scholarly criticism on the extensive corpus of medieval saints' legends. with the assistance of Margaret RogersonSaints' legends are being increasingly recognised as one of the most important genres of the middle ages, and attract much critical attention. This volume surveys the scholarly literatureof the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on the extensive Middle English corpus. It also provides a conspectus of the genre's history in the Middle English period, and its place in the development of the modern discipline of Middle English, while both the introduction and the annotations give attention to the problematic boundaries between genres and to the issues involved in separating out texts from their manuscript contexts. General studies of the corpus as a whole are covered, as well as discussions and editions of individual legends, of the various extended cycles of legends, and of sermon collections that include hagiographic legends and exempla; the volume has been structured so as to provide an overview of the research on major works [for example the South English Legendary and St Erkenwald], and authors such as Osbern Bokenham, John Capgrave, William Caxton and John Mirk. It includesan Index of Scholars and Critics keyed to the Bibliography, an Index of Middle English Texts that covers all works, of whatever genre, mentioned in the annotations, and an Index of Manuscripts that gathers the references to the over 170 manuscripts cited.
Author | : Manfred Görlach |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sarah Salih |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781843840725 |
Download A Companion to Middle English Hagiography Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The saints were the superheroes and the celebrities of medieval England, bridging the gap between heaven and earth, the living and the dead. A vast body of literature evolved during the middle ages to ensure that everyone, from kings to peasants, knew the stories of the lives, deaths and afterlives of the saints. However, despite its popularity and ubiquity, the genre of the Saint's Life has until recently been little studied. This collection introduces the canon of Middle English hagiography; places it in the context of the cults of saints; analyses key themes within hagiographic narrative, including gender, power, violence and history; and, finally, shows how hagiographic themes survived the Reformation. Overall it offers both information for those coming to the genre for the first time, and points forward to new trends in research. Dr SARAH SALIH is a Lecturer in English at the University of East Anglia. Contributors: SAMANTHA RICHES, MARY BETH LONG, CLAIRE M. WATERS, ROBERT MILLS, ANKE BERNAU, KATHERINE J. LEWIS, MATTHEW WOODCOCK
Author | : Anne B Thompson |
Publisher | : Medieval Institute Publications |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2005-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1580444075 |
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This volume is conceived as a complement to another Middle English Texts series text, Sherry Reames' Middle English Legends of Women Saints. This selection is intended to be broadly representative of saints' lives in Middle English and of the classic types of hagiographic legend as these were presented to the lay public and less-literate clergy of late medieval England.
Author | : Gordon Hall Gerould |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Karen A. Winstead |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 150171158X |
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Virgin martyrs make up one of the largest categories of medieval saints. To judge by their frequent appearances in art and literature, they also figure among the most venerated. The legends of virgin martyrs, retold in various ways through the centuries, illuminate trends in popular piety, values, and literary tastes. Chaste Passions contains sixteen English virgin martyr legends, each of a different saint and each translated into colloquial, modern English prose. Faithful in tone and meaning to the originals, Karen Winstead's lively translations allow contemporary readers to appreciate why virgin martyr legends thrived for hundreds of years. Winstead presents the tales in chronological order, tracing the effects of the composition and tastes of the audience on the development of the genre. The virgin martyr, Winstead tells us, escapes the confining female stereotypes—demure maiden or disruptive shrew—prevalent in writings of the period. Because nearly all of the texts were written by men but addressed to women, they exhibit a fascinating interplay between male views of so-called women's literature and the demands of their intended audience. Familiarity with this widely read genre is essential to a full understanding of medieval culture, and Chaste Passions is an excellent introduction to these often racy, sometimes comic, tales
Author | : Catherine Sanok |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0812249828 |
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New Legends of England examines a previously unrecognized phenomenon of fifteenth-century English literary culture: the proliferation of vernacular Lives of British, Anglo-Saxon, and other native saints. Catherine Sanok argues these texts use literary experimentation to explore overlapping forms of secular and religious community.
Author | : Martha G Blalock |
Publisher | : Medieval Institute Publications |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2003-03-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1580444229 |
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Middle English Legends of Women Saints presents a collection of saints' Lives intended to suggest the diversity of possibilities beneath the supposedly fixed and predictable surfaces of the legends, using multiple retellings of the same legend to illustrate that medieval readers and listeners did not just passively receive saints' legends but continually and actively appropriated them. The collection opens with legends about two royal (or supposedly royal) women, Frideswide and Mary Magdelen, and continues with those of three popular virgin martyrs, Margaret of Antioch, Christina of Tyre, and Katherine of Alexandria. The final portion of the collection is devoted to St. Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary. The collection includes a number of relatively unknown texts that have not appeared in print since Horstmann's transcriptions in the nineteenth century and a few that have never before been published.
Author | : Thomas Lederer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Christian hagiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thelma S. Fenster |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1843844591 |
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Recent research has emphasised the importance of insular French in medieval English culture alongside English and Latin; for a period of some four hundred years, French (variously labelled the French of England, Anglo-Norman, Anglo-French, and Insular French) rivalled these two languages. The essays here focus on linguistic adaptation and translation in this new multilingual England, where John Gower wrote in Latin while his contemporary Chaucer could break new ground in English.