{"product_id":"rethinking-the-south-english-legendaries-9781526106964","title":"Rethinking the South English Legendaries","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe South English Legendary is the major collection of saints’ lives in medieval English.  A medieval 'bestseller', with 50 or so manuscripts and manuscript fragments and nearly 300 separate items in circulation in various combinations and books from the late thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, the Legendary has become increasingly well known in recent years through modern editions of individual texts and study of particular  manuscripts.  Meanwhile greatly increased interest in saints’ lives,  in literary and historical scholarship and the cultural and post-disciplinary turn in literary studies provide a wealth of new approaches through which to view the South English Legendary. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe present volume creates a fresh platform for thinking about this richly dynamic work: it draws on the new hagiographic scholarship, attends to textual, socio-cultural, political and other issues, reprints a handful of earlier key articles now difficult to obtain, and includes a special section on performance. It will be of interest to all scholars of medieval literature: academics, teachers, graduate students, undergraduates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Rethinking the \u003ci\u003eSouth English Legendaries\u003c\/i\u003e - Heather Blurton and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne\u003cbr\u003ePart I: (Re-)situating the \u003ci\u003eSouth English Legendary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. The \u003ci\u003eSouth English Legendaries\u003c\/i\u003e - Thomas Liszka\u003cbr\u003e 3. The social context of vernacular writing in thirteenth-century England: the \u003cbr\u003e evidence of the manuscripts - John Frankis\u003cbr\u003e 4. The \u003ci\u003eSouth English Legendary\u003c\/i\u003e and its major Latin models - Sherry Reames \u003cbr\u003e 5. Outspoken style in the \u003ci\u003eSouth English Legendary\u003c\/i\u003e and Robert of Gloucester - Oliver Pickering\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Manuscripts and Textual Cultures of the \u003ci\u003eSouth English Legendaries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'Lite bokes' and 'grete relikes': texts and their transmission in the \u003ci\u003eSouth English Legendary\u003c\/i\u003e - Chloe Morgan\u003cbr\u003e 7. Documents, poetry, and editorial practice: the case of 'St. Egwin' - Stephen M. Yeager\u003cbr\u003e 8. Modular dynamics in the \u003ci\u003eSouth English Legendary\u003c\/i\u003e - William Robins\u003cbr\u003e Part III: Textual communities and the \u003ci\u003eSouth English Legendaries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. Forms of community in the \u003ci\u003eSouth English Legendary\u003c\/i\u003e - Catherine Sanok\u003cbr\u003e 10. Counting noses and assessing the numbers: native saints in the \u003ci\u003eSouth English Legendaries\u003c\/i\u003e - Virginia Blanton\u003cbr\u003e 11. Locating saints' lives and their communities - Jocelyn Wogan-Browne\u003cbr\u003e 12. Pope Gregory and St. Austin of Canterbury in the Early \u003ci\u003eSouth English Legendary\u003c\/i\u003e - E. Gordon Whatley\u003cbr\u003e Part IV: Contexts and Discourses\u003cbr\u003e 13. Dangerous sympathies: political commentary in the \u003ci\u003eSouth English Legendary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - Thomas J. Heffernan\u003cbr\u003e 14. 'His right hond he liet of-smite': Judas\/Quiriac and the representation of Jewish identity in the \u003ci\u003eSouth English Legendaries\u003c\/i\u003e - Heather Blurton\u003cbr\u003e 15. Mapping identity in the \u003ci\u003eSouth English Legendary\u003c\/i\u003e - Sarah Breckenridge\u003cbr\u003e 16. Visualizing the \u003ci\u003eSouth English Legendary\u003c\/i\u003e: Bodleian Library, MS Tanner 17 Karen - A. Winstead\u003cbr\u003e 17. Conversion, translation and Becket's 'heathen' mother - Robert Mills\u003cbr\u003e 18. Bodies of belief: MS Bodley 779's \u003ci\u003eSouth English Legendary\u003c\/i\u003e - Jocelyn Wogan-Browne\u003cbr\u003e Part V: Performance\u003cbr\u003e 19. Black humour in the \u003ci\u003eSouth English Legendary\u003c\/i\u003e - Oliver Pickering\u003cbr\u003e 20. Teaching the \u003ci\u003eSouth English Legendaries\u003c\/i\u003e at York: performativity and interdisciplinarity - Chloe Morgan, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Tim Ayers \u003cbr\u003e Part VI: Afterword\u003cbr\u003e21. Where next? - Anne B. Thompson\u003cbr\u003eWorks cited\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040978174295,"sku":"9781526106964","price":21.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rethinking-the-south-english-legendaries-9781526106964","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}