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Titolo: | Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain / / edited by Eva von Contzen and Anke Bernau |
Pubblicazione: | Manchester, [England] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015 |
©2015 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
Disciplina: | 820.9/382/0902 |
Soggetto topico: | English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism |
Saints in literature | |
Religion in literature | |
Soggetto non controllato: | British Isles |
Sanctity | |
literariness | |
medieval literature | |
poetics | |
Persona (resp. second.): | ContzenEva von |
BernauAnke | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | This title explores how sanctity and questions of literariness are intertwined across a range of medieval genres. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain |
ISBN: | 0-7190-9816-5 |
0-7190-9817-3 | |
1-5261-0424-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819461703321 |
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