La Vie D''edouard Le Confesseur By a Nun of Barking Abbey

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Jane Bliss is an independent scholar working in Oxford. Klappentext The twelfth-century Life of King Edward the Confessor, in Anglo-Norman verse, is here presented in modern English for the first time. Its author is an anonymous Nun of Barking Abbey--this is arguably the earliest vernacular text known to be by a woman. Zusammenfassung The twelfth-century Anglo-Norman verse Life of King Edward the Confessor is presented here in modern English for the first time! with a full introduction and notes. The anonymous Nun offers an absorbing portrait of the king and saint! as well as a wealth of detail about both Edward's times and the twelfth-century context in which she was writing.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Bliss
• Assisted by: Jane Bliss (Editor), Jane Bliss (Translation)
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.06.2014
• EAN: 9781846319518
• ISBN: 978-1-84631-951-8
• No. of pages: 249
• Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies; Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies; Exeter Medieval Texts and Stud
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies