Anna Lisa Taylor

Epic Lives and Monasticism in the Middle Ages, 800-1050

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book to focus on Latin epic verse saints' lives in their medieval historical contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 715g
• ISBN-13: 9781107030503
• ISBN-10: 1107030501
• Artikelnr.: 37800351

Autorenporträt

Anna Lisa Taylor is Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: saints, teachers, princes, and students
1. Forging sanctity: Hilduin of Saint-Denis and the epic Passio Dionysii
2. Glossing the imaginary: epic vitae in the classroom
3. Classical nightmares: Christian poets and the pagan past
4. Bishops, monks, and mother bees: an epic vita at the millennium
5. Mothers and daughters, affiliation and conflict in the lives of Rictrude and Euseba
Conclusions: 'black seeds on a white field'
Appendix 1. St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, cod. sang. 265
Appendix 2. Douai Bibliotheque municipale ms 849.