Holy Men and Holy Women - Old English Prose Saints' Lives and Their Contexts

This is a collection of essays on the literature of "saints' lives" in Anglo-Saxon literature.

About the author

Paul E. Szarmach is Director of the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. He is the editor of Aspects of Medieval Culture in the Middle Ages; Introduction to the Medieval Mystics of Europe; Studies in Earlier Old English Prose, and co-author (with Bernard F. Huppe) of Old English Homily and Its Background, all published by SUNY Press. He is also the editor of the SUNY series in Medieval Studies.

Product details

• Assisted by: Paul E Szarmach (Editor), Paul E. Szarmach (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.1996
• EAN: 9780791427156
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-2715-6
• No. of pages: 408
• Weight: 708 g
• Series: Great Disasters; Great Disasters; Suny Medieval Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education