Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain / edited by Eva von Contzen and Anke Bernau.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This title explores how sanctity and questions of literariness are intertwined across a range of medieval genres.

Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: sanctity as literature: Eva von Contzen; 1. St Margaret and the literary politics of Scottish sainthood, Kate Ash; 2. Good knights and holy men: reading the virtue of soldier-saints in medieval literary genres, Andrew Lynch; 3. Englishing the saints in Robert Mannyng's, Kate Greenspan; 4. Modelling holiness: self-fashioning and sanctity in late medieval English mystical literature, Jessica Barr; 5. Body and soul: from doctrine to debate in medieval Welsh and Irish literature, Helen Fulton; 6. Chaucer and hagiographic authority, Jennifer L. Sisk

7. Reading classical authors in Capgrave's, Sarah James; 8. Lydgate's saintly poetics, Anke Bernau; 9. Narrating vernacular sanctity: the Scottish Legendary as a challenge to the 'literary turn' in fifteenth-century hagiography; 10. Reforming sanctity: the Digby Mary Magdalen and Lewis Wager's Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene, Tamara Atkin; 11. The humanist grammar of sanctity in the early Lives of Thomas More, Anna Siebach Larsen; 12. Afterword: calendar time in balade form, Catherine SanokBibliography; Index.

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