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Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New
Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and
his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their
intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore
the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each
SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of
Chaucer-related publications.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New
Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and
his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their
intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore
the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each
SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of
Chaucer-related publications.
Though medieval "saints' lives" are among the oldest literary texts
of Western vernacular culture, they are routinely patronized as
"pious fiction" by modern historiography. This book demonstrates
that to characterize the genre as fiction is to misunderstand the
intentions of medieval authors, who were neither credulous fools
nor men blinded by piety. Concentrating on English texts, Heffernan
reconstructs the medieval perspective and considers sacred
biography in relation to the community for which it was written;
identifies the genre's rhetorical practices and purposes; and
demonstrates the syncretistic way in which the life of the medieval
saint was transformed from oral tales to sacred text. In the
process, Heffernan not only achieves a more contextually accurate
understanding of the medieval saints' lives, but details a new
critical method that has important implications for the practice of
textual criticism.
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