Author: Saint RadegondePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
The Lyfe of Saynt Radegunde
Author: Saint RadegondePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Saint Radegund, Patroness of Jesus College, Cambridge
Author: Frederick BrittainThe Life of Saint Werburge of Chester
Author: Henry BradshawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Saints, English
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Radegund
Author: E. T. DaileyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197656129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
A princess born to the Thuringian royal house. A captive in war, forced to marry the Frankish king who killed her family. A queen, who renounced her position, received consecration as a deaconess, and took monastic vows. A religious leader, who acquired a fragment of the Cross of the Crucifixion for her convent of Holy Cross in Poitiers. And, lastly, a saint, remembered for her healings, exorcisms, and extreme self-mortification. Such was Radegund, a woman who lived through an era defined by headlong change. Honored as a "mother" by subsequent Frankish kings and as a holy woman by her nuns and devotees, Radegund enjoyed a reputation for righteousness that spread throughout the whole of medieval Europe, with later queens emulating her pious achievements. For generations, she defined medieval queenship, female monastic practice, and the expectations associated with holy women. Today, she is often envisioned as a pan-European saint. Radegund presents a new interpretation of this remarkable woman, examining her vibrant life and legacy. E. T. Dailey shows how she succeeded in establishing a place for herself within this difficult and dangerous world, despite the trials she faced. He also demonstrates how Radegund achieved a position of prominence as a woman in a foreign land without resorting to the violence and intrigue that characterized the lives of other prominent women during this period. Based on a wealth of English, French, and German scholarship, this book will equip experts and lay readers with a concise, authoritative, and accessible portrait of Radegund.
The Antiquaries Journal
Author: Handbook to the Popular, Poetical and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain
Author: William Carew HazlittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Hand-book to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain
Author: William Carew HazlittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Her Life Historical
Author: Catherine SanokPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203003
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Her Life Historical offers a major reconsideration of one of the most popular narrative forms in late medieval England—the lives of female saints—and one of the period's primary modes of interpretation—exemplarity. With lucidity and insight, Catherine Sanok shows that saints' legends served as vehicles for complex considerations of historical difference and continuity in an era of political crisis and social change. At the same time, they played a significant role in women's increasing visibility in late medieval literary culture by imagining a specifically feminine audience. Sanok proposes a new way to understand exemplarity—the repeated injunction to imitate the saints—not simply as a prescriptive mode of reading but as an encouragement to historical reflection. With groundbreaking originality, she argues that late medieval writers and readers used religious narrative, and specifically the legends of female saints, to think about the historicity of their own ethical lives and of the communities they inhabited. She explains how these narratives were used in the fifteenth century to negotiate the urgent social concerns occasioned by political instability and dynastic conflict, by the threat of heresy and the changing status of public religion, and by new kinds of social mobility and forms of collective identity. Her Life Historical also offers a fresh account of how women came to be visible participants in late medieval literary culture. The expectation that they formed a distinct audience for saints' lives and moral literature allowed medieval women to surface in the historical record as book owners, patrons, and readers. Saints' lives thereby helped to invent the idea of a gendered audience with a privileged affiliation and a specific response to a given narrative tradition.
Typographical Antiquities: Or the History of Printing in England Scotland and Ireland ... Begun by the Late Joseph Ames ... Considerably Augmented by William Herbert ... and Now Greatly Enlarged ... by the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Author: Typographical Antiquities; Or The History of Printing in England Scotland and Ireland:
Author: Joseph AmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description