Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!

Become a Readings Member. Sign in or sign up for free!

Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre to view your orders, change your details, or view your lists, or sign out.

Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre or sign out.

Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England
Hardback

Anglo-Saxon Saints’ Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England

$440.99
Sign in or become a Readings Member to add this title to your wishlist.

The past was ever present in later medieval England, as secular and religious institutions worked to recover (or create) originary narratives that could guarantee, they hoped, their political and spiritual legitimacy. Anglo-SaxonEngland, in particular, was imagined as a spiritual golden age and a rich source of precedent, for kings and for the monasteries that housed early English saints’ remains.
This book examines the vernacular hagiography produced in a monastic context, demonstrating how writers, illuminators, and policy-makers used English saints (including St Edmund) to re-envision the bonds between ancient spiritual purity and contemporary conditions. Treating history and ethical practice as inseparable, poets such as Osbern Bokenham, Henry Bradshaw, and John Lydgate reconfigured England’s history through its saints, engaging with contemporary concerns about institutional identity, authority, and ethics.

Cynthia Turner Camp is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia.

Read More
In Shop
Out of stock
Shipping & Delivery

$9.00 standard shipping within Australia
FREE standard shipping within Australia for orders over $100.00
Express & International shipping calculated at checkout

MORE INFO
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
16 April 2015
Pages
260
ISBN
9781843844020

The past was ever present in later medieval England, as secular and religious institutions worked to recover (or create) originary narratives that could guarantee, they hoped, their political and spiritual legitimacy. Anglo-SaxonEngland, in particular, was imagined as a spiritual golden age and a rich source of precedent, for kings and for the monasteries that housed early English saints’ remains.
This book examines the vernacular hagiography produced in a monastic context, demonstrating how writers, illuminators, and policy-makers used English saints (including St Edmund) to re-envision the bonds between ancient spiritual purity and contemporary conditions. Treating history and ethical practice as inseparable, poets such as Osbern Bokenham, Henry Bradshaw, and John Lydgate reconfigured England’s history through its saints, engaging with contemporary concerns about institutional identity, authority, and ethics.

Cynthia Turner Camp is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia.

Read More
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
16 April 2015
Pages
260
ISBN
9781843844020