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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Sanok, Catherine (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Kristna kvinnor > religiöst liv > historia > England > medeltiden.
Engelsk religiös litteratur > historia.
Kvinnliga helgon > biografi > historia.
Hagiografi > historia > medeltiden.
Heiligenvita > Weibliche Heilige > Grossbritannien > England > Geschichte > 1000-1500.
Middeleeuwen.
Vrouwen.
Heiligen.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Christian women saints > Biography.
Christian women > Religious life.
Christian literature, English (Middle)
Christian hagiography.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Saintes chretiennes > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Hagiographie chretienne.
Chretiennes > Angleterre > Vie religieuse > Jusqu'à 1500.
Litterature chretienne anglaise (moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Hagiographie chretienne > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500.
Christian women saints > Biography > History and criticism.
Christian hagiography > History > To 1500.
Christian women > Religious life > England > History > To 1500.
Christian literature, English (Middle) > History and criticism.
England > Weibliche Heilige > Vorbild > Frau > Geschichte > 1000-1500.
Engeland.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Imitating the past: exemplarity and/as history
  • Female saints' lives and the invention of a feminine audience
  • Fictions of feminine community in Bokenham's legendary
  • Exemplarity and England in native saints' lives
  • Hagiography and historical comparison in the Book of Margaret Kempe
  • Performing the past: saints' plays and the Second nun's tale.

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