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

Cynthia Turner Camp

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Cynthia Turner Camp, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: May 2015
Print publication year:: 2015
Online ISBN:: 9781782044666

Subjects:: Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature

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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-Saxon England, 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.

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

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

List of Illustrations
pp viii-viii

Acknowledgments
pp ix-x

Abbreviations
pp xi-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-24

1 - Edith of Wilton and the Writing of Women's History
pp 25-63

2 - Audrey Abroad: Spiritual and Genealogical Filiation in the Middle English Lives of Etheldreda
pp 64-101

3 - Henry Bradshaw's Life of Werburge and the Limits of Holy Incorruption
pp 102-132

4 - The Limits of Narrative History in the Written and Pictorial Lives of Edward the Confessor
pp 133-172

5 - The Limits of Poetic History in Lydgate's Edmund and Fremund and the Harley 2278 Pictorial Cycle
pp 173-210

Bibliography
pp 211-236

Index
pp 237-246

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