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Everyday saints and the art of narrative in the South English legendary / Anne B. Thompson.
Van Pelt Library PR2143.S543 T48 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Anne Booth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South English legendary.
- Christian literature, English (Middle)--History and criticism.
- Christian literature, English (Middle).
- English language--Middle English, 1100-1500--Rhetoric.
- English language.
- Christian saints--Legends--History and criticism.
- Christian saints.
- Christian saints--Legends.
- Manners and customs in literature.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Rhetoric, Medieval.
- Hagiography.
- Rhetoric.
- English language--Middle English.
- Physical Description:
- x, 224 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, U.K. ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2003]
- Contents:
- 1 Tales of the Saints 3
- Beginnings 3
- The legend of Saint Hilary 7
- Hagiography and its discontents 12
- The art of narrative and the influence of everyday life 16
- 2 Writing in English 21
- The poetry of popular instruction 22
- The Ormulum 31
- Cursor Mundi 36
- Handlyng Synne 39
- The South English Legendary 46
- Part 2 The Art of Narrative
- 3 Narrative Beginnings 61
- Narrative and repetition in the Ormulum 64
- Cursor Mundi's coherent biography 70
- The South English Legendary and the perils of originality 78
- 4 The Uses of Romance 87
- Romance as a generic influence 87
- Mary Magdalen and the prince of Marseille 90
- Isumbras and Eustace 98
- The Isumbras romance 102
- The Eustace legend 106
- 5 The Idea of a Collection 115
- Sources and authors 115
- The idea of a collection 121
- The triumph of narrative in All Souls 124
- The story of the buried miner 129
- Part 3 The Influence of Everyday Life
- 6 Escaping the Virgin Martyr Plot 139
- Frideswide of Oxford 142
- Ordinary wives 153
- The legend of Julian the Hospitaller 158
- The legend of Clement 163
- Telling stories about the world 173
- A world of people 175
- The natural world 181
- Letting the tale speak 185
- Appendix The South English Legendary 189.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-212) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754632938
- OCLC:
- 50291107
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