Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Contzen, Eva von; Bernau, Anke

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection explores some of the many ways in which sanctity was closely intertwined with the development of literary strategies across a range of writings in late medieval Britain. Rather than looking for clues in religious practices in order to explain such changes, or reading literature for information about sanctity, these essays consider the ways in which sanctity - as concept and as theme - allowed writers to articulate and to develop further their 'craft' in specific ways. While scholars in recent years have turned once more to questions of literary form and technique, the kinds of writings considered in this collection - writings that were immensely popular in their own time - have not attracted the same amount of attention as more secular forms. The collection as a whole offers new insights for scholars interested in form, style, poetics, literary history and aesthetics, by considering sanctity first and foremost as literature

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780719098161
• Artikelnr.: 43436696

Autorenporträt

Eva von Contzen is Assistant Professor of Old and Middle English Language, Literature and Culture at Ruhr-Universität Bochum Anke Bernau is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: sanctity as literature
Eva von Contzen 1. St Margaret and the literary politics of Scottish sainthood
Kate Ash 2. Good knights and holy men: reading the virtue of soldier
saints in medieval literary genres
Andrew Lynch 3. Englishing the saints in Robert Mannyng's Handlyng Synne
Kate Greenspan 4. Modeling holiness: self
fashioning and sanctity in late
medieval English mystical literature
Jessica Barr 5. Body and soul: from doctrine to debate in medieval Welsh and Irish literature
Helen Fulton 6. Chaucer and hagiographic authority
Jennifer L. Sisk 7. Reading classical authors in Capgrave's Life of St Katherine
Sarah James 8. Lydgate's saintly poetics
Anke Bernau 9. Narrating vernacular sanctity: the Scottish Legendary as a challenge to the 'literary turn' in fifteenth
century hagiography
Eva von Contzen 10. Reforming sanctity: the Digby Mary Magdalen and Lewis Wager's Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene
Tamara Atkin 11. The humanist grammar of sanctity in the early Lives of Thomas More
Anna Siebach Larsen Afterword: Calendar time in balade form
Catherine Sanok Bibliography Index