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Writing Normandy : stories of saints and rulers / Felice Lifshitz.
Van Pelt Library DC611.N856 L54 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lifshitz, Felice, 1959- author.
- Series:
- Collected studies
- Variorum collected studies series ; CS1095
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hagiography.
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern).
- Transmission of texts.
- History.
- Normandy (France)--History--To 1515--Sources.
- Normandy (France).
- Normandy (France)--History--To 1515--Historiography.
- Normandy (France)--Church history--Historiography.
- Transmission of texts--France--Normandy--History--To 1500.
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--France.
- Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Sources.
- Church history.
- Church history--Middle Ages--Sources.
- Hagiography--History and criticism.
- Historiography.
- History--Sources.
- France.
- France--Normandy.
- Genre:
- Church history.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 266 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
- Summary:
- "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 analysed 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part I: "Hagiography" and Historical Representation
- Part II: Historiographic Discourse and Saintly Relics: The Archbishops and Rouen
- Part III: Historiographic Discourse and Saintly Relics: Beyond Rouen
- Part IV: Dudo of St. Quentin and the Gesta Normannorum
- Part V: Women and Gender.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lifshitz, Felice, Writing Normandy
- ISBN:
- 9780367139537
- 0367139537
- OCLC:
- 1163958330
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