Felice Lifshitz

Writing Normandy

Stories of Saints and Rulers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Writing Normandy brings together eighteen articles by historian Felice Lifshitz, some of which are published here for the first time. The articles examine the various ways in which local and regional narratives about the past were created and revised in Normandy during the central Middle Ages. These narratives are analyzed through a combination of both cultural studies and manuscript studies in order to assess how they functioned, who they benefitted, and the various contexts in which they were transmitted. The essays pay particular attention to the narratives built around venerated saints and secular rulers, and in doing so bring together narratives that have traditionally been discussed separately by scholars. The book will appeal to scholars and students of cultural history and medieval history, as well as those interested in manuscript studies. (CS1095)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9780367139537
• ISBN-10: 0367139537
• Artikelnr.: 60017978

Autorenporträt

Felice Lifshitz is Professor of Women¿s and Gender Studies, and of Religious Studies, at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her publications include Gender in Historical Film and Television (2018), co-edited with Carol Donelon and Siobhan Craig, and Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia: A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: "Hagiography" and Historical Representation 1. Beyond Positivism
and Genre: "Hagiographical" Texts as Historical Narrative 2. Still Useless
After All These Years: The Concept of "Hagiography" in the Twenty-First
Century Part 2: Historiographic Discourse and Saintly Relics: The
Archbishops and Rouen 3. The "Privilege of Saint Romanus:" Provincial
Independence and Hagiographical Legends at Rouen 4. The Acta
Archiepiscoporum Rotomagensium: A Monastery or Cathedral Product? 5. Eight
Men In: Rouennais Traditions of Archiepiscopal Sanctity 6. St. Romanus of
Rouen: Frankish Missionary in Viking Normandy 7. The Politics of
Historiography: The Memory of Bishops in Eleventh-Century Rouen 8. The
Cults of the Holy Bishops of Rouen from 396 to 996: the Role of Oral
Traditions and Popular Actions Part 3: Historiographic Discourse and
Saintly Relics: Beyond Rouen 9. The "Exodus of Holy Bodies" Reconsidered:
The Translation of the Relics of St. Gildard of Rouen to Soissons 10. The
Migration of Neustrian Relics in the Viking Age: The Myth of Voluntary
Exodus, the Reality of Coercion and Theft 11. Apostolicity Theses in Gaul:
The Histories of Gregory and the "Hagiography" of Bayeux Part 4: Dudo of
St. Quentin and the Gesta Normannorum 12. Dudo's Historical Narrative and
the Norman Succession of 996 13. Viking Normandy: Dudo of St. Quentin's
Gesta Normannorum 14. Dudo of St. Quentin 15. Carolingian Normandy: An
Essay on Continuity, Using Neglected Sources 16. Translating Feudal
Vocabulary: Dudo of St. Quentin Part 5: Women and Gender 17. The Encomium
Emmae Reginae: A Political Pamphlet of the Eleventh Century? 18. Sifting
for Fictions: Women in Dudo of St. Quentin's Androcentric Gesta Normannorum