New Legends of England: Forms of Community in Late Medieval Saints' Lives (The Middle Ages Series)

by Catherine Sanok (Author), Catherine Sanok (Author), Catherine Sanok (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2018

  $78.27

  New Legends of England examines a previously unrecognized phenomenon of fifteenth-century English literary culture: the proliferation of vernacular Lives of British, Anglo-Saxon, and other native saints. Catherine Sanok argues these texts use literary experimentation to explore overlapping forms of secular and religious community.