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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Manchester medieval literature and culture.