TY  - BOOK
AU  - Contzen,Eva von
AU  - Bernau,Anke
TI  - Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain
T2  - Manchester medieval literature and culture
SN  - 9781526104243
AV  - PR255 .S26 2016eb
U1  - 820.93820902 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - Middle English, 1100-1500
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Religion in literature
KW  - Saints in literature
KW  - Littérature anglaise
KW  - 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais)
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Religion dans la littérature
KW  - Saints dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Middle English
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Critiques littéraires
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - This title explores how sanctity and questions of literariness are intertwined across a range of medieval genres
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