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…
Cover -- Contents -- A Note on Abbreviations and Spelling -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Conceptualizing Community in the South English Legendary -- Chapter 2. The Phenomenal Bodies of Anglo-Saxon Virgins -- Chapter 3. Local Community and Secular Poetics in Middle English Lives o…
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 …
Glory of the confessors
by Gregory,, Bishop of Tours, Saint
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Contains a series of anecdotes about the lives and cults of Christians who witnessed to their faith through their exemplary lives. These anecdotes provide important historical evident, first, for the ways bishops and their congregations manipulated traditions about the developme…
Glory of the confessors
by Gregory,, Bishop of Tours, Saint
fromTranslated Texts for Historians
"Gregory was bishop of Tours from 573. To most modern readers he is best known for his 'History of the Franks, ' a narrative of Gaul in the sixth century. But during his episcopacy Gregory of Tours also composed eight books of stories about saints, their cults, and their miracle…
Glory of the confessors
by Van Dam, Raymond, Gregorius Turonensis
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Glory of the confessors
by Van Dam, Raymond, Gregorio de Tours,, Santo
fromTranslated Texts for Historians