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Anne Thompson here gives the fullest account and explanation to
date of the diversity of the more than sixty manuscripts of the
South English Legendary, a late thirteenth-century collection of
lively verse lives of saints, in a southern English dialect. The
importance of the SEL to hagiographic and cultural studies has been
increasingly acknowledged in recent years. Without denying the
legendaries' religious purpose, this book looks at the way SEL
narratives reflect and address the complex, interwined
tapestry"political, social, religious"of Edward I's England, while
retaining a strong emphasis on the craft of story-telling. Thompson
shows the SEL to be a fresh and exciting early example of popular
vernacular literature. Firmly grounded in rural and small town life
of the 1270s to 1290s in the west of England, it is uniquely
significant for any understanding of that culture.
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