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A Companion to Middle English Hagiography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 204

A Companion to Middle English Hagiography

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: DS Brewer

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 the middle ages to ensure that everyone, from kings to peasants, knew the stories of the lives, deaths and afterlives of the saints. However, despite its popularity and ubiquity, the genre of the Saint's Life has until recently been little studied. This collection introduces the canon of Middle English hagiography; places it in the context of the cults of saints; analyses key themes within hagiographic narrative, including gender, power, violence and history; and, finally, shows how hagiographic themes survived the Reformation. Overall it offers both information for those coming to the genre for the first time, and points forward to new trends in research. Dr SARAH SALIH is a Lecturer in English at the University of East Anglia. Contributors: SAMANTHA RICHES, MARY BETH LONG, CLAIRE M. WATERS, ROBERT MILLS, ANKE BERNAU, KATHERINE J. LEWIS, MATTHEW WOODCOCK

Medieval Archaeology, Art and Architecture at Chester
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Medieval Archaeology, Art and Architecture at Chester

This volume is a compilation of papers presented in British Archaeological Association's annual conference in 1992. It focuses on the long tradition of archaeological and historical enquiry which has provided a framework for understanding Chester's development from the Roman period.

The Texts and Contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 367

The Texts and Contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-12-17
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This book serves as the essential companion to the late thirteenth-century, Middle English manuscript, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108. It marks a collaborative effort by scholars who investigate the codicological and contextual features of this manuscript’s vernacular poems.

Her Life Historical
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Her Life Historical

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 served as vehicles for complex considerations of historical difference and continuity in an era of political crisis and social change. At the same time, they played a significant role in women's increasing visibility in late medieval literary culture by imagining a specifically feminine audience. Sanok proposes a new way to understand exemplarity—the repeated injunction to imitate the saints—not simply...

Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature

A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality.

Reading Piers Plowman
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Reading Piers Plowman

Reading 'Piers Plowman' is an indispensable scholarly guide to a magnificent - and notoriously difficult - medieval poem. With 'Piers Plowman', the fourteenth-century poet William Langland proved that English verse could be at once spiritually electrifying and intellectually rigorous, capable of imagining society in its totality while at the same time exploring heady ideas about language, theology and culture. In her study of Piers Plowman, Emily Steiner explores how Langland's ambitious poetics emerged in dialogue with contemporary ideas; for example, about political counsel and gender, the ethics of poverty, Christian and pagan learning, lordship and servitude, and the long history of Christianity. Lucid and comprehensive, Steiner's study teaches us to stay alert to the poem's stunning effects while still making sense of its literary and historical contexts.

The Oxford History of Poetry in English
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 668

The Oxford History of Poetry in English

The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the fourteen volumes. This volume occupies both a foundational and a revolutionary place. Its opening date--1100--marks the re-e...

The Cult of St Edmund in Medieval East Anglia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

The Cult of St Edmund in Medieval East Anglia

An investigaton of the growth and influence of the cult of St Edmund, and how it manifested itself in medieval material culture.

Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 621

Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-11-19
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  • Publisher: Springer

Margaret, saint and 11th-century Queen of the Scots, remains an often-cited yet little-understood historical figure. Keene's analysis of sources in terms of both time and place – including her Life of Saint Margaret , translated for the first time – allows for an informed understanding of the forces that shaped this captivating woman.

Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe

The three archetypal representations of woman in the middle ages, as mother, as whore and as 'wise woman', are all clearly present in the writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe; in examining the ways in which both writers make use of these female categories, Dr. McAvoy establishes the extent of their success in resolving the tension between society's expectations of them and their own lived experiences as women and writers."--Jacket.