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Rethinking the South English Legendaries
Heather Blurton (Ed.)
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Description for Rethinking the South English Legendaries
Paperback. Rethinking the South English legendaries offers theoretically fresh approaches to the major vernacular collection of saints' lives in the English Middle Ages, combining leading scholars and new voices in the field. The volume creates a new platform for thinking about this richly dynamic but so far critically underappreciated medieval bestseller. Editor(s): Blurton, Heather; Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn. Series Editor(s): Bernau, Anke. Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 544 pages, 18 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3F; 3H; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC1; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 28. Weight in Grams: 603.
The South English Legendary is the major collection of saints' lives in medieval English. A medieval 'bestseller', with 50 or so manuscripts and manuscript fragments and nearly 300 separate items in circulation in various combinations and books from the late thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, the Legendary has become increasingly well known in recent years through modern editions of individual texts and study of particular manuscripts. Meanwhile greatly increased interest in saints' lives, in literary and historical scholarship and the cultural and post-disciplinary turn in literary studies provide a wealth of new approaches through which to ... Read more
The South English Legendary is the major collection of saints' lives in medieval English. A medieval 'bestseller', with 50 or so manuscripts and manuscript fragments and nearly 300 separate items in circulation in various combinations and books from the late thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, the Legendary has become increasingly well known in recent years through modern editions of individual texts and study of particular manuscripts. Meanwhile greatly increased interest in saints' lives, in literary and historical scholarship and the cultural and post-disciplinary turn in literary studies provide a wealth of new approaches through which to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781526106964
SKU
V9781526106964
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About Heather Blurton (Ed.)
Heather Blurton is Associate Professor in English and Medieval Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara Jocelyn Wogan-Browne is Thomas F.X. and Theresa Mullarkey Chair in Literature at Fordham University -- .
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