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Book SynopsisExplores how sanctity and questions of literariness are intertwined across a range of medieval genres.
Trade Review'In its individual essays and collective prod to supple analysis, Sanctity as Literature will cast a long shadow over future scholarship on hagiography, poetics, and literariness in later medieval literatures.’
Cynthia Turner Camp, University of Georgia
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: sanctity as literature – Eva von Contzen
1. St Margaret and the literary politics of Scottish sainthood – Kate Ash
2. Good knights and holy men: reading the virtue of soldier-saints in medieval literary genres – Andrew Lynch
3. Englishing the saints in Robert Mannyng’s Handlyng Synne - Kate Greenspan
4. Modeling holiness: self-fashioning and sanctity in late-medieval English mystical literature –
Jessica Barr
5. Body and soul: from doctrine to debate in medieval Welsh and Irish literature – Helen Fulton
6. Chaucer and hagiographic authority – Jennifer L. Sisk
7. Reading classical authors in Capgrave’s Life of St Katherine – Sarah James
8. Lydgate’s saintly poetics – Anke Bernau
9. Narrating vernacular sanctity: the Scottish Legendary as a challenge to the ‘literary turn’ in fifteenth-century hagiography – Eva von Contzen
10. Reforming sanctity: the Digby Mary Magdalen and Lewis Wager’s Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene – Tamara Atkin
11. The humanist grammar of sanctity in the early Lives of Thomas More – Anna Siebach Larsen
Afterword: Calendar time in balade form – Catherine Sanok
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