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Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Cynthia Turner Camp
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives.
New Legends of England
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Catherine Sanok
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-01 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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In New Legends of England, Catherine Sanok examines a significant, albeit previously unrecognized, phenomenon of fifteenth-century literary culture in England:
Tradition and Belief
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Clare A. Lees
Categories: Religion
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In this major study of Angle-Saxon religious tests sermons, homilies, and saints' lives written in Old English -- Clare A. Lees reveals how the invention of pre
Saints' Lives in Middle English Collections
Language: en
Pages: 393
Authors: Anne B Thompson
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-04-01 - Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

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This volume is conceived as a complement to another Middle English Texts series text, Sherry Reames' Middle English Legends of Women Saints. This selection is i
The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1. The Middle Ages
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Karen A. Winstead
Categories: Literary Criticism
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The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages explores the richness and variety of life-writing from late Antiquity to the threshold of the Rena