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Книга Her Life Historical Catherine Sanok

Her Life Historical

Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England

Автор: Catherine Sanok
Език: Английски език
Корици: С твърди корици
Издател: University of Pennsylvania Press
Наличност: Външен склад
Изпращаме след 14-21 дни
78.18 € 152.91 лв
Her Life Historical Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England Catherine Sanok "T...

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Автор
Catherine Sanok
Език
Английски език
Корици
Книга - С твърди корици
Издадена
2007
страници
280
EAN
9780812239867
ISBN
0812239865
Enbook ID
04724057
Издател
University of Pennsylvania Press
Теглоt
567
Размери
152 x 229 x 30

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Her Life Historical Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England Catherine Sanok "This is a wonderful book. The argument is original and compelling, and the research thorough and convincing. It will make an important contribution both to the specific studies of medieval hagiography and medieval women's literary culture and to the broader field of medieval studies."--Jennifer Summit, Stanford University "Elegantly written and learned."--Choice "Sanok's impeccably researched volume ...should definitely put an end to the fiction that late medieval hagiographic literature knew nothing of history."--Journal of British Studies 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. With lucidity and insight, Catherine Sanok shows that saints' legends served as vehicles for complex considerations of historical difference and continuity in an era of political crisis and social change. At the same time, they played a significant role in women's increasing visibility in late medieval literary culture by imagining a specifically feminine audience. Sanok proposes a new way to understand exemplarity--the repeated injunction to imitate the saints--not simply as a prescriptive mode of reading but as an encouragement to historical reflection. With groundbreaking originality, she argues that late medieval writers and readers used religious narrative, and specifically the legends of female saints, to think about the historicity of their own ethical lives and of the communities they inhabited. She explains how these narratives were used in the fifteenth century to negotiate the urgent social concerns occasioned by political instability and dynastic conflict, by the threat of heresy and the changing status of public religion, and by new kinds of social mobility and forms of collective identity. Her Life Historical also offers a fresh account of how women came to be visible participants in late medieval literary culture. The expectation that they formed a distinct audience for saints' lives and moral literature allowed medieval women to surface in the historical record as book owners, patrons, and readers. Saints' lives thereby helped to invent the idea of a gendered audience with a privileged affiliation and a specific response to a given narrative tradition. Catherine Sanok teaches English at the University of Michigan. The Middle Ages Series 2007 | 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-3986-7 | Cloth | $65.00s | GBP42.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-0300-4 | Ebook | $65.00s | GBP42.50 World Rights | Literature, Religion, Women's/Gender Studies Short copy: 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.

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