Her Life Historical : Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England /

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Her Life Historical offers a major reconsideration of one of the most popular narrative forms in late medieval England-the lives of female saints-and one of the period's primary modes of interpretation-exemplarity. With lucidity and insight, Catherine Sanok shows that saints' legends serve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sanok, Catherine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Colección:The Middle Ages Series
Temas:
Christian hagiography.
Christian literature, English (Middle) > History and criticism.
Christian women saints > Biography > History and criticism.
Christian women saints > Biography.
Christian women > Religious life > England > History > To 1500.
Christian women > Religious life.
Religious Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
Gender Studies.
Literature.
Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Religion.
Women's Studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Imitating the Past: Exemplarity and/ as History
  • 2. Female Saints' Lives and the Invention of a Feminine Audience
  • 3. Fictions of Feminine Community in Bokenham's Legendary
  • 4. Exemplarity and England in Native Saints' Li
  • 5. Hagiography and Historical Comparison in the Book of Margery Kempe
  • 6. Performing the Past: Saints' Plays and the Second Nun)s Tale
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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