New Legends of England : : Forms of Community in Late Medieval Saints' Lives / / Catherine Sanok.
In New Legends of England, Catherine Sanok examines a significant, albeit previously unrecognized, phenomenon of fifteenth-century literary culture in England: the sudden fascination with the Lives of British, Anglo-Saxon, and other native saints. Embodying a variety of literary forms—from elevated...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 8 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on Abbreviations and Spelling
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Conceptualizing Community in the South English Legendary
- Chapter 2. The Phenomenal Bodies of Anglo-S axon 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
- Acknowledgments