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Impolitic bodies : poetry, saints, and society in fifteenth-century England : the work of Osbern Bokenham / Sheila Delany.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Delany, Sheila.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bokenham, Osbern, 1393?-1447? Legendys of hooly wummen.
- Bokenham, Osbern.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Influence.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- Monastic and religious life--England--East Anglia--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Monastic and religious life.
- Christian saints--Cult--History.
- Christian saints.
- Christian saints--Cult--England--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Christian women saints--Legends--History and criticism.
- Christian women saints.
- Literature and society--England--History.
- Literature and society.
- Human body in literature.
- Christian hagiography.
- Great Britain--History--Lancaster and York, 1399-1485.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- With Impolitic Bodies Delany breaks important ground in fifteenth century scholarship, a critical site of cultural study. Delany examines the work of English Augustinian friar Osbern Bokenham, never before written on at length, and fully explores the relations of history and literature in the particularly turbulent period in English history, beginning with ""The Wars of the Roses"" and during the ""Hundred Years War."" Delany examines the first collection of all female saints' lives in any language: Legends of Holy Women composed by Bokenham between 1443 and 1447. The book is organized around
- Contents:
- Contents; Abbreviations; I. Introductions; 2. The Literary Corpus; 3. The Friar as Critic; 4. Impolitic Bodies I: Head, Feet, Face, Womb; 5. Impolitic Bodies II: Tongue, Mouth, Language; 6. Impolitic Bodies III: Breast, Genital, Gut, and All; 7. The Body Politic; 8. Sexual-Textual Politics; 9. Last Things and Afterlives; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-232) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-510989-9
- 0-19-535508-3
- 1-4294-0437-X
- 1-280-52917-2
- OCLC:
- 466425489
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