Anglo Saxon Saints Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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• Release Date : 02 June 2024

A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives.

• Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
• File Size : 31,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 April 2005

This volume is conceived as a complement to another Middle English Texts series text, Sherry Reames' Middle English Legends of Women Saints. This selection is intended to be broadly representative

• Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
• File Size : 47,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 February 2018

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

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 05 April 2018

The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages explores the richness and variety of life-writing from late Antiquity to the threshold of the Renaissance. During the Middle Ages, writers

• Publisher : DS Brewer
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• Release Date : 02 June 2024

The saints were the superheroes and the celebrities of medieval England, bridging the gap between heaven and earth, the living and the dead. A vast body of literature evolved during

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 12 December 2019

Women's literary histories usually start in the later Middle Ages, but recent scholarship has shown that actually women were at the heart of the emergence of the English literary tradition.

• Publisher : Penn State Press
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• Release Date : 01 November 2010

• Publisher : punctum books
• File Size : 50,8 Mb
• Release Date : 18 August 2022

Writing circa 731 CE, Bede professes in the introduction to his Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum that he will write his account of the past of the English following only vera lex

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 16 September 2019

By tapping into the vast reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, the collected studies explore how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the

• Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
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• Release Date : 02 June 1999

In this major study of Anglo-Saxon religious texts--sermons, homilies, and saints' lives written in Old English--Clare A. Lees reveals how the invention of preaching transformed the early medieval church, and