Rethinking the South English Legendaries

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

• 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