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Holy men and holy women Old English prose saints' lives and their contexts
Title
Holy men and holy women [electronic resource] : Old English prose saints' lives and their contexts / edited by Paul E. Szarmach.
ISBN
9780585076072 (electronic bk.)
0585076073 (electronic bk.)
0791427153
9780791427156
0791427161
9780791427163
Published
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1996.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvii, 390 pages) : illustrations.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 21, 2019
Series
SUNY series in medieval studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
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