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Anglo-Saxon Saints´ Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England
Cynthia Turner Camp
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Hardback. A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives. Num Pages: 260 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3H; DSBB; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 756.
A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives. The past was ever present in later medieval England, as secular and religious institutions worked to recover (or create) originary narratives that could guarantee, they hoped, their political and spiritual legitimacy. Anglo-SaxonEngland, in particular, was imagined as a spiritual "golden age" and a rich source of precedent, for kings and for the monasteries that housed early English saints' remains. This book examines the vernacular hagiography produced in a monastic context, demonstrating how writers, illuminators, and policy-makers used English saints (including St Edmund) to ... Read more
A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives. The past was ever present in later medieval England, as secular and religious institutions worked to recover (or create) originary narratives that could guarantee, they hoped, their political and spiritual legitimacy. Anglo-SaxonEngland, in particular, was imagined as a spiritual "golden age" and a rich source of precedent, for kings and for the monasteries that housed early English saints' remains. This book examines the vernacular hagiography produced in a monastic context, demonstrating how writers, illuminators, and policy-makers used English saints (including St Edmund) to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843844020
SKU
V9781843844020
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About Cynthia Turner Camp
Assistant Professor of English, University of Georgia
Reviews for Anglo-Saxon Saints´ Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England
[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 more
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 more