Critics have traditionally treated the Old English poems about saints as individual, autonomous works, relating but little to one another except in a broadly generic way. Bjork challenges the traditional view with an examination of the major structural feature that all the poems…
"The Kojiki, previously translated as "A Record of Ancient Matters," is considered to be the first literary work in the history of Japan. It is a compilation of myths, history, songs, legends, genealogies, and other disparate works from which written history and literature were …
The monastic Margaret : The life of St. Anthony and Gregory's Dialogues in the Life -- In the belly of the beast : sexual surrender and resistance in the life -- The Devil made me do it - audience partitioning and The life of St. Margaret -- Circumcising Olibrius : threatening s…
Her Life Historical offers a major reconsideration of one of the most popular narrative forms in late medieval England-the Lives of female saints-and one of the period's primary modes of interpretation-exemplarity. With lucidity and insight, Catherine Sanok shows that saints' le…
Her Life Historical offers a major reconsideration of one of the most popular narrative forms in late medieval England-the Lives of female saints-and one of the period's primary modes of interpretation-exemplarity. With lucidity and insight, Catherine Sanok shows that saints' le…
New Legends of England examines a previously unrecognized phenomenon of fifteenth-century English literary culture: the proliferation of vernacular Lives of British, Anglo-Saxon, and other native saints. Catherine Sanok argues these texts use literary experimentation to explore …
King Arthur: a casebook
This book explores the multiplicity of ways in which the Charlemagne legend was recorded in Latin texts of the central and later Middle Ages, moving beyond some of the earlier canonical "raw materials", such as Einhard's <I>Vita Karoli Magni</I>, to focus on productions of the e…
This book explores the multiplicity of ways in which the Charlemagne legend was recorded in Latin texts of the central and later Middle Ages, moving beyond some of the earlier canonical "raw materials," such as Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni, to focus on productions of the eleventh…