Christiania Whitehead

The Afterlife of St Cuthbert

Place, Texts and Ascetic Tradition, 690-1500

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Produktbeschreibung

Introduces readers interested in insular spirituality and hagiography to the major texts associated with the cult of the great northern English saint, Cuthbert. The first sustained analysis of this textual tradition from 690-1500, emphasizing his ascetic evolution, and association with changing perceptions of northernness and nationhood.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781108748421
• ISBN-10: 1108748422
• Artikelnr.: 66222575

Autorenporträt

Christiania Whitehead is an Honorary Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, and a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland where she specialises in medieval religious literature. Her books include Castles of the Mind: a Study of Medieval Architectural Allegory (2003), The Doctrine of the Hert: A Critical Edition (co-ed.) (2010), Saints of North-East England, 600-1500 (co-ed.) (2017), and Middle English Lyrics: New Readings of Short Poems (co.ed.) (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Blessings on pregnant seals: constructing Cuthbert's asceticism in his
anonymous and Bedan vitae and the Historia ecclesiastica, 690-740; 2.
Travels with my coffin: the dislocation and defence of the community of St
Cuthbert in the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto, 793-1050; 3. The bishop in
the rain: celebrating the new order in Symeon of Durham's Libellus de
exordio, Old English Durham, and the Capitula de miraculis et
translationibus sancti Cuthberti, 1066-1140; 4. Expansions and contractions
of saintly space in two Cuthbertine miracle collections, 1150-1210; 5.
Godric of Finchale, Bartholomew of Farne, and the 'Irish' Libellus de ortu
Sancti Cuthberti: three eremitic responses to St Cuthbert, 1150-1210; 6.
Delimiting sanctity in two meditations from Farne Island: the Exortacio ad
Contemplacionem and the Meditaciones of the Monk of Farne, 1210-1370; 7.
Vernacular epitomes and encyclopedias: Southern Legendaries and the
Metrical Life of St Cuthbert, 1270-1500; Conclusion.