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Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England (Hardcover)
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Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England (Hardcover)
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A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English
history-writers made of saints' lives. 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.
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