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New Legends of England : Forms of Community in Late Medieval Saints' Lives / Catherine Sanok.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sanok, Catherine, author.
- Series:
- Middle Ages series.
- The Middle Ages Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian hagiography--History--To 1500.
- Christian hagiography.
- Christian saints--England--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Christian saints.
- Christian saints--Legends--Early works to 1800.
- Communities--England--History--To 1500.
- Communities.
- Group identity--England--History--To 1500.
- Group identity.
- Christian literature, English (Middle)--History and criticism.
- Christian literature, English (Middle).
- England.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Legends
- History
- Early works
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Biographies
- Biography
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (349 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- New Legends of England examines a previously unrecognized phenomenon of fifteenth-century English literary culture: the proliferation of vernacular Lives of British, Anglo-Saxon, and other native saints. Catherine Sanok argues these texts use literary experimentation to explore overlapping forms of secular and religious community.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; A Note on Abbreviations and Spelling; Introduction; Chapter 1. Conceptualizing Community in the South English Legendary; Chapter 2. The Phenomenal Bodies of Anglo-Saxon Virgins; Chapter 3. Local Community and Secular Poetics in Middle English Lives of St. Wenefred; Chapter 4. Englishing the Golden Legend and the Geography of Religious Community; Chapter 5. Secular, Religious, and Literary Jurisdictions; Chapter 6. The City and the Inner Precincts of the Sacred; Chapter 7. St. Ursula and the Scale of English Community; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K.
- LM; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9780812294705
- 081229470X
- OCLC:
- 1027787156
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