Anglo-Saxon saints lives as history writing in late medieval England / Cynthia Turner Camp.
A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Edith of Wilton and the Writing of Women's History; 2 Audrey Abroad: Spiritual and Genealogical Filiation in the Middle English Lives of Etheldreda; 3 Henry Bradshaw's Life of Werburge and the Limits of Holy Incorruption; 4 The Limits of Narrative History in the Written and Pictorial Lives of Edward the Confessor; 5 The Limits of Poetic History in Lydgate's Edmund and Fremund and the Harley 2278 Pictorial Cycle; Bibliography; Index