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Impolitic Bodies - Poetry, Saints, and Society in Fifteenth-Century England: The Work of Osbern Bokenham (Hardcover, New)
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Impolitic Bodies - Poetry, Saints, and Society in Fifteenth-Century England: The Work of Osbern Bokenham (Hardcover, New)
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With this witty and elegant new book, one of our leading
medievalists breaks new ground in fifteenth-century scholarship, a
critical site of cultural study. Delany examines the work of
English Augustinian friar Osbern Bokenham, a figure never before
written on at any length, and fully explores the relations between
history and literature in a particularly turbulent period in
English history, a period extending from the "War of the Roses"
through the "Hundred Years War." Delany focuses on Bokenham's major
work, Legends of Holy Women--the first collection of all female
saint's lives in any language--composed between 1443 and 1447.
Organizing the book around the image of the body--a medieval
procedure becoming popular once again in current attention to the
social construction of the body--she looks at a number of major
concerns. One is Bokenham's relation to the body of English
literature, particularly Chaucer. Another is the entire genre of
saints's lives, particularly female saints's lives, with their
striking uses of the body of the saint to generate their meaning.
Yet another is the image of the body politic and its importance in
the political and dynastic crises of fifteenth century England.
Delany draws these diverse strands together to create an innovative
and readable portrait of Bokenham's work and its larger cultural
and political importance, offering a host of new insights into this
unjustly neglected period in English literary history.
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