Rethinking the South English Legendaries

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-02-07
Mått:138 x 216 x 28 mm
Vikt:608 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Antal sidor:544
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781526106964

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Biografier inom Biografier
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Heather Blurton is Associate Professor in English and Medieval Studies at the University of California, Santa BarbaraJocelyn Wogan-Browne is Thomas F.X. and Theresa Mullarkey Chair in Literature at Fordham University

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Rethinking the South English Legendaries - Heather Blurton and Jocelyn Wogan-BrownePart I: (Re-)situating the South English Legendary2. The South English Legendaries - Thomas Liszka3. The social context of vernacular writing in thirteenth-century England: the evidence of the manuscripts - John Frankis4. The South English Legendary and its major Latin models - Sherry Reames 5. Outspoken style in the South English Legendary and Robert of Gloucester - Oliver PickeringPart II: Manuscripts and Textual Cultures of the South English Legendaries6. 'Lite bokes' and 'grete relikes': texts and their transmission in the South English Legendary - Chloe Morgan7. Documents, poetry, and editorial practice: the case of 'St. Egwin' - Stephen M. Yeager8. Modular dynamics in the South English Legendary - William RobinsPart III: Textual communities and the South English Legendaries9. Forms of community in the South English Legendary - Catherine Sanok10. Counting noses and assessing the numbers: native saints in the South English Legendaries - Virginia Blanton11. Locating saints' lives and their communities - Jocelyn Wogan-Browne12. Pope Gregory and St. Austin of Canterbury in the Early South English Legendary - E. Gordon WhatleyPart IV: Contexts and Discourses13. Dangerous sympathies: political commentary in the South English Legendary- Thomas J. Heffernan14. 'His right hond he liet of-smite': Judas/Quiriac and the representation of Jewish identity in the South English Legendaries - Heather Blurton15. Mapping identity in the South English Legendary - Sarah Breckenridge16. Visualizing the South English Legendary: Bodleian Library, MS Tanner 17 Karen - A. Winstead17. Conversion, translation and Becket's 'heathen' mother - Robert Mills18. Bodies of belief: MS Bodley 779's South English Legendary - Jocelyn Wogan-BrownePart V: Performance19. Black humour in the South English Legendary - Oliver Pickering20. Teaching the South English Legendaries at York: performativity and interdisciplinarity - Chloe Morgan, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Tim Ayers Part VI: Afterword21. Where next? - Anne B. ThompsonWorks citedIndex