Rethinking the South English Legendaries - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0719084342 ISBN 13 : 9780719084348

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2011

Synopsis

The South English Legendary is the major collection of saints’ lives in medieval English. A medieval 'bestseller', with 50 or so manuscripts and manuscript fragments and nearly 300 separate items in circulation in various combinations and books from the late thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, the Legendary has become increasingly well known in recent years through modern editions of individual texts and study of particular manuscripts. Meanwhile greatly increased interest in saints’ lives, in literary and historical scholarship and the cultural and post-disciplinary turn in literary studies provide a wealth of new approaches through which to view the South English Legendary.

The present volume creates a fresh platform for thinking about this richly dynamic work: it draws on the new hagiographic scholarship, attends to textual, socio-cultural, political and other issues, reprints a handful of earlier key articles now difficult to obtain, and includes a special section on performance. It will be of interest to all scholars of medieval literature: academics, teachers, graduate students, undergraduates.

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A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jocelyn Wogan-Browne is Thomas F.X. and Theresa Mullarkey Chair in Literature at Fordham University

Heather Blurton is Associate Professor in English and Medieval Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719084342
• ISBN 13: 9780719084348
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 544
• Éditeur: Blurton Heather, Wogan-Browne Jocelyn
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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