Karen A. Winstead (The Ohio State University Professor of English)

Gebundenes Buch

Oxford History of Life-Writing

Volume 1. the Middle Ages

Beschreibung

The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages explores the richness and variety of life writing in the Middle Ages, ranging from Anglo-Latin lives of missionaries, prelates, and princes to high medieval lives of scholars and visionaries to late medieval lives of authors and laypeople.

Autor

Karen A. Winstead is a Professor of English at the Ohio State University. Her specialty is the literature and culture of late-medieval England, with a particular interest in gender and popular culture. She has published widely on saints' lives and on literature by, for, and about medieval women. Her monographs include John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century and Virgin Martyrs: Legends of Sainthood in Late Medieval England, and she is completing a study of saints' lives in fifteenth-century England. She has also translated and edited John Capgrave's Life of Saint Katherine and translated a selection of Middle English virgin martyr legends.

Produktdetails

• Oxford History of Life-Writing
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9780198707035
• ISBN-10: 0198707037
• Artikelnr.: 49562023