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