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Epic Lives and Monasticism in the Middle Ages, 800-1050
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Artikel-Nr:
9781107030503
Veröffentl:
2013
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Erscheinungsdatum:
07.11.2013
Seiten:
346
Autor:
Anna Lisa Taylor
Gewicht:
715 g
Format:
235x157x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Anna Lisa Taylor is Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
This is the first book to focus on Latin epic verse saints' lives in their medieval historical contexts.
Introduction: saints, teachers, princes, and students; 1. Forging sanctity: Hilduin of Saint-Denis and the epic Passio Dionysii; 2. Glossing the imaginary: epic vitae in the classroom; 3. Classical nightmares: Christian poets and the pagan past; 4. Bishops, monks, and mother bees: an epic vita at the millennium; 5. Mothers and daughters, affiliation and conflict in the lives of Rictrude and Euseba; Conclusions: 'black seeds on a white field'; Appendix 1. St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, cod. sang. 265; Appendix 2. Douai Bibliotheque municipale ms 849.