Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England

Author:   Cynthia Turner Camp (Royalty Account)
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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9781843844020


Pages:   260
Publication Date:   16 April 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Cynthia Turner Camp (Royalty Account)
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   D.S. Brewer
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.478kg
ISBN:  

9781843844020


ISBN 10:   1843844028
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   16 April 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction Edith of Wilton and the Writing of Women's History Audrey Abroad: Spiritual and Genealogical Filiation in the Middle English Lives of Etheldreda Henry Bradshaw's Life of Werburge and the Limits of Holy Incorruption The Limits of Narrative History in the Written and Pictorial Lives of Edward the Confessor The Limits of Poetic History in Lydgate's Edmund and Fremund and the Harley 2278 Pictorial Cycle Bibliography

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(O)ffers interesting new ways of looking at the nature of late medieval English hagiographic literature and innovative paths of inquiry for hagiographic and memory studies. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW


Highly detailed and carefully argued, Camp's study succeeds in showing how the creators of these lives manipulated not only historical narrative and perceptions of time, but also poetic form and hagiographic discourses to construct institutional identities and address audiences both within and without the monastery walls. SPECULUM (O)ffers interesting new ways of looking at the nature of ut the monastery walls. SPECULUM (O)ffers interesting new ways of looking at the nature of late medieval English hagiographic


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Assistant Professor of English, University of Georgia

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