{"product_id":"sanctity-as-literature-in-late-medieval-britain-manchester-medieval-literature-and-culture-9780719089701","title":"Sanctity as Literature in Late Medieval Britain","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores how sanctity and questions of literariness are intertwined across a range of medieval genres.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'In its individual essays and collective prod to supple analysis, \u003ci\u003eSanctity as Literature \u003c\/i\u003ewill cast a long shadow over future scholarship on hagiography, poetics, and literariness in later medieval literatures.’\u003cbr\u003eCynthia Turner Camp, University of Georgia\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: sanctity as literature – Eva von Contzen\u003cbr\u003e1. St Margaret and the literary politics of Scottish sainthood – Kate Ash\u003cbr\u003e2. Good knights and holy men: reading the virtue of soldier-saints in medieval literary genres – Andrew Lynch\u003cbr\u003e3. Englishing the saints in Robert Mannyng’s Handlyng Synne - Kate Greenspan\u003cbr\u003e4. Modeling holiness: self-fashioning and sanctity in late-medieval English mystical literature –\u003cbr\u003eJessica Barr\u003cbr\u003e5. Body and soul: from doctrine to debate in medieval Welsh and Irish literature – Helen Fulton\u003cbr\u003e6. Chaucer and hagiographic authority – Jennifer L. Sisk\u003cbr\u003e7. Reading classical authors in Capgrave’s Life of St Katherine – Sarah James\u003cbr\u003e8. Lydgate’s saintly poetics – Anke Bernau\u003cbr\u003e9. Narrating vernacular sanctity: the Scottish Legendary as a challenge to the ‘literary turn’ in fifteenth-century hagiography – Eva von Contzen\u003cbr\u003e10. Reforming sanctity: the Digby Mary Magdalen and Lewis Wager’s Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene – Tamara Atkin\u003cbr\u003e11. The humanist grammar of sanctity in the early Lives of Thomas More – Anna Siebach Larsen\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: Calendar time in balade form – Catherine Sanok\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884288586071,"sku":"9780719089701","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sanctity-as-literature-in-late-medieval-britain-manchester-medieval-literature-and-culture-9780719089701","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}