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UNINA9910794893403321 |
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Titolo |
Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain / / edited by Eva von Contzen and Anke Bernau |
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Manchester, [England] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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0-7190-9816-5 |
0-7190-9817-3 |
1-5261-0424-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism |
Saints in literature |
Religion in literature |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 St Margaret and the literary politics of Scottish sainthood -- 2 Good knights and holy men -- 3 Englishing the saints in Robert Mannyng's Handlyng Synne -- 4 Modelling holiness -- 5 Body and soul -- 6 Chaucer and hagiographic authority -- 7 Reading classical authors in Capgrave's Life of St Katherine -- 8 Lydgate's saintly poetics -- 9 Narrating vernacular sanctity -- 10 Reforming sanctity -- 11 The humanist grammar of sanctity in the early Lives of Thomas More -- 12 Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This title explores how sanctity and questions of literariness are intertwined across a range of medieval genres. |
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