Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England

A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives.

List of contents

Introduction
Edith of Wilton and the Writing of Women's History
Audrey Abroad: Spiritual and Genealogical Filiation in the Middle English Lives of Etheldreda
Henry Bradshaw's Life of Werburge and the Limits of Holy Incorruption
The Limits of Narrative History in the Written and Pictorial Lives of Edward the Confessor
The Limits of Poetic History in Lydgate's Edmund and Fremund and the Harley 2278 Pictorial Cycle
Bibliography

About the author

Cynthia Turner Camp

Product details

• Authors: Cynthia Turner Camp, Cynthia Turner (Royalty Account) Camp, Cynthia Turner Camp
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2015
• EAN: 9781843844020
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-402-0
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, RELIGION / Christianity / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism