Sanctity as Literature in Late Medieval Britain

Eva von Contzen is Assistant Professor of Old and Middle English Language, Literature and Culture at Ruhr-Universität BochumAnke Bernau is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester

'In its individual essays and collective prod to supple analysis, Sanctity as Literature will cast a long shadow over future scholarship on hagiography, poetics, and literariness in later medieval literatures.’Cynthia Turner Camp, University of Georgia

• Introduction: sanctity as literature – Eva von Contzen1. St Margaret and the literary politics of Scottish sainthood – Kate Ash2. Good knights and holy men: reading the virtue of soldier-saints in medieval literary genres – Andrew Lynch3. Englishing the saints in Robert Mannyng’s Handlyng Synne - Kate Greenspan4. Modeling holiness: self-fashioning and sanctity in late-medieval English mystical literature –Jessica Barr5. Body and soul: from doctrine to debate in medieval Welsh and Irish literature – Helen Fulton6. Chaucer and hagiographic authority – Jennifer L. Sisk7. Reading classical authors in Capgrave’s Life of St Katherine – Sarah James8. Lydgate’s saintly poetics – Anke Bernau9. Narrating vernacular sanctity: the Scottish Legendary as a challenge to the ‘literary turn’ in fifteenth-century hagiography – Eva von Contzen10. Reforming sanctity: the Digby Mary Magdalen and Lewis Wager’s Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene – Tamara Atkin11. The humanist grammar of sanctity in the early Lives of Thomas More – Anna Siebach LarsenAfterword: Calendar time in balade form – Catherine SanokBibliographyIndex