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Author Sanok, Catherine, author.

Title Her life historical : exemplarity and female saints' lives in late medieval England / Catherine Sanok
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 256 pages) : illustrations
Series The Middle Ages series
Middle Ages series
Contents Imitating the past: exemplarity and/as history -- Female saints' lives and the invention of a feminine audience -- Fictions of feminine community in Bokenham's legendary -- Exemplarity and England in native saints' lives -- Hagiography and historical comparison in the Book of Margaret Kempe -- Performing the past: saints' plays and the Second nun's tale
Summary Her Life Historical offers a major reconsideration of one of the most popular narrative forms in late medieval England--the lives of female saints--and one of the period's primary modes of interpretation, exemplarity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-245) and index
Notes In English
Subject Christian hagiography.
Christian literature, English (Middle) -- History and criticism
Christian women saints -- Biography -- History and criticism
Christian women -- Religious life -- England -- History -- To 1500
Christian hagiography -- History -- To 1500
Christian women saints -- Biography -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
Christian hagiography
Christian literature, English (Middle)
Christian women -- Religious life
Christian women saints -- Biography
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Heiligen.
Vrouwen.
Middeleeuwen.
Heiligenvita -- Weibliche Heilige -- Grossbritannien -- England -- Geschichte -- 1000-1500.
Hagiografi -- historia -- medeltiden.
Kvinnliga helgon -- biografi -- historia.
Engelsk religiös litteratur -- historia.
Kristna kvinnor -- religiöst liv -- historia -- England -- medeltiden.
England
Engeland.
England -- Weibliche Heilige -- Vorbild -- Frau -- Geschichte -- 1000-1500.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006044664
ISBN 9780812203004
0812203003