| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 390 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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SUNY series in medieval studies |
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SUNY series in medieval studies.
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| Contents |
An introduction to the study of old english prose hagiography : sources and resources / E. Gordon Whatley -- Imago dei : genre, symbolism, and Anglo-Saxon hagiography / Thomas D. Hill -- Saints and companions to saints : Anglo-Saxon royal women monastics in context / Carol Neuman de Vegvar -- Hagiography and politics in early Northumbria / David Rollason -- Ælfric's Sanctorale / Michael Lapidge -- The contents of the Cotton-Corpus legendary / Peter Jackson and Michael Lapidge -- Hermits and the contemplative life in Anglo-Saxon England / Mary Clayton -- Saint Cuthbert : the post-conquest appropriation of an Anglo-Saxon cult / Barbara Abou-El-Haj -- The corpus of anonymous lives and their manuscript context / D.G. Scragg -- Appendix : The three anonymous lives in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 303 / D.G. Scragg and Elaine Treharne -- The dissemination of Ælfric's Lives of saints : a preliminary survey / Joyce Hill -- Experiments in genre : the saints' lives in Ælfric's Catholic homilies / M.R. Godden -- Ælfric as historian : his use of Alcuin's Laudationes and sulpicius' Dialogues in his two lives of Martin / Frederick M. Biggs -- Ælfric and the legend of the seven sleepers / Hugh Magennis -- Discourse and hypersignification in two of Ælfric's saints' lives / Ruth Waterhouse -- St. Euphrosyne : holy transvestite / Paul E. Szarmach |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 27, 2020) |
| Subject |
English prose literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism
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Christian literature, English (Old) -- History and criticism
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Christian saints -- Cult -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500
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Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature.
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
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Christian saints in literature.
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Christian hagiography -- History -- To 1500
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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Women and literature
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Christian hagiography
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Christian literature, English (Old)
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Christian saints in literature
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Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature
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English prose literature -- Old English
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Littérature anglaise -- 450-1100 (vieil anglais) -- Histoire et critique.
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Saints -- Culte -- Histoire -- Moyen âge.
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Hagiographie chrétienne.
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Saints chrétiens -- Dans la littérature.
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Szarmach, Paul E., editor
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| ISBN |
9780585076072 |
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0585076073 |
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