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Author Birkett, Helen, author.

Title The saints' lives of Jocelin of Furness : hagiography, patronage and ecclesiastical politics / Helen Birkett
Published Woodbridge, Suffolk : York Medieval Press ; Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell & Brewer, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 326 pages)
Series JSTOR EBA
Contents Frontcover; CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; Part I Texts; 1. Expanding the Narrative: The Composition of the Vita S. Patricii; 2. Compiling Female Sanctity: The Sources for the Vita S. Helenae; 3. Restoring the Text: Jocelin's Approach to the Vita S. Kentegerni; 4. From the Testimony of Trustworthy Men: The Interaction of Oral and Written Sources in the Vita S. Waldevi; Part II Contexts; 5. Irish Ecclesiastical Politics and Anglo-Norman Sponsorship: The Patronage of the Vita S. Patricii
6. Scottish Independence and Ecclesiastical Reform: The Vita S. Kentegerni in Context7. Promoting Sanctity: The Vita S. Waldevi, Canonization and Cistercian Saintly Cults; 8. Locating the Text: The Patrons, Sources and Historical Context of the Vita S. Helenae; 9. Exemplary Narratives: Contemporary Reforming Discourses in Jocelin's Vitae; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Backcover
Summary Jocelin of Furness (fl.1175x1214), the Cistercian hagiographer, composed four substantial and significant saints' lives; varying widely in both subject and patron, they offer a rich corpus of medieval hagiographical writing. Jocelin's <I>Vita S. Patricii</I> and <I>Vita S. Kentegerni</I> provide updated versions of each saint's legend and are carefully adapted to reflect the interests of their respective patrons in Ireland and Scotland. The <I>Vita S. Helenae</I> was probably commissioned by a female community in England; it represents an idealized narrative mirror of its early thirteenth-century context. In contrast, the <I>Vita S. Waldevi</I> was written to promote the formal canonization of a new saint, Waltheof (d.1159), abbot of the Cistercian house of Melrose in the Scottish borders.<BR> This is the first full-length study of the Lives. It combines detailed analyses of the composition of the texts with study of their patronage, audiences, and contemporary contexts; and it provides new insights into Jocelin's works and the writing of hagiography in the period.<BR><BR> Helen Birkett is a Mellon Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Jocelin, active 1200.
SUBJECT Jocelin, active 1200 fast (OCoLC)fst01827190
Subject Christian hagiography -- History and criticism
RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Christian hagiography.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781846158964
1846158966