In Fifteenth-Century Lives, Karen A. Winstead identifies and explores a major shift in the writing of Middle English saints’ lives. As she demonstrates, starting in the 1410s and ’20s, hagiography became more character-oriented, more morally complex, more deeply embedded in history, and more politic...

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1. Verfasser:	Winstead, Karen A. 1960- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Notre Dame, IN University of Notre Dame Press [2020]
Schriftenreihe:	Reformations: medieval and early modern
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1400-1500 Hagiografie England Christian hagiography England / Church history / 1066-1485 1066-1485 Church history
Zusammenfassung:	In Fifteenth-Century Lives, Karen A. Winstead identifies and explores a major shift in the writing of Middle English saints’ lives. As she demonstrates, starting in the 1410s and ’20s, hagiography became more character-oriented, more morally complex, more deeply embedded in history, and more politically and socially engaged. Further, it became more self-consciously literary and began to feature women more prominently―and not only traditional virgin martyrs but also matrons and contemporary holy women. Winstead shows that this literature placed a premium on scholarship and teaching. Hagiography celebrated educators and scholars more than ever before and became a vehicle for educating readers about Christian dogma. Focusing both on authors well known, such as John Lydgate and Margery Kempe, and on others less known, such as Osbern Bokenham and John Capgrave, Winstead argues that the values promoted by fifteenth-century hagiography helped to shape the reformist impulses that eventually produced the Reformation. Moreover, these values continued to influence post-Reformation hagiography, both Protestant and Catholic, well into the seventeenth century
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliography (p. 179-192) and index
Beschreibung:	xi, 197 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:	9780268108533