[A] very engaging and useful book that will be helpful to scholars in many areas of medieval studies, especially those working in Middle English hagiography or historiography.
JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY
Highly detailed and carefully argued, Camp's study succeeds in showing how the creators of these lives manipulated not only historical narrative and perceptions of time, ... Read morebut also poetic form and hagiographic discourses to construct institutional identities and address audiences both within and without the monastery walls.
SPECULUM
[O]ffers interesting new ways of looking at the nature of late medieval English hagiographic literature and innovative paths of inquiry for hagiographic and memory studies.
THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW
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